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The respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) usually causes mild, cold-like symptoms, but can be severe in vulnerable people

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The first ever vaccine against RSV could be approved in 2023

Although usually mild, the respiratory syncytial virus can be fatal among babies and older people. Promising results from trials during pregnancy and in those aged 60 or over suggest that a vaccine may soon be approved

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People queue up to receive the Medigen and Moderna vaccines for the Covid-19 coronavirus at Taipei's main train station on April 29, 2022. (Photo by Sam Yeh / AFP) (Photo by SAM YEH/AFP via Getty Images)

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A person receives a smallpox vaccine to protect against mpox in LA, California, in August 2022

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Targeted vaccine campaigns helped the West get on top of monkeypox

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A transmission electron micrograph of Streptococcus pyogenes

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Strep A kills 500,000 people a year, so why isn’t there a vaccine?

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An electron micrograph of an HIV virus particle (red/yellow) budding from the plasma membrane of an infected T cell (blue), which make up part of the immune system

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Vaccine prompts HIV antibodies in 97 per cent of people in small study

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Illustration of Yersinia pestis bacteria

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An mRNA vaccine protects mice against deadly plague bacteria

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Human cells infected with influenza virus

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Promising universal flu vaccine could protect against 20 strains

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E. coli bacteria

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Vaccine to prevent UTIs could be taken as a dissolving tablet

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Respiratory syncytial virus - viral vaccine under research

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When will a vaccine for RSV be available in the US?

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Illustration of a B cell producing antibodies

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Vaccines that prolong the immune response may give better protection

Most vaccines are designed to provoke a quick immune response, but a longer one might allow the most effective immune cells to stick around in the bone marrow

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Covid jab rates vary in England in children of different ethnicities

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UK isn't prepared for the next pandemic, says ex-vaccine chief

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Experimental Zika vaccine stops the virus from replicating in mice

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Coronavirus vaccines could cut the risk of long covid by two-fifths

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