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Pregnant women and some babies, not all, will have access to respiratory syncytial virus immunisation in South Australia next year. But the state opposition has called for broader access to the scheme, given the growing rates of children being admitted to hospital with infection. RSV is a common cause of bronchiolitis and pneumonia among babies under 1 year of age. There have been 7849 infections in SA this year, more than 1000 RSV cases higher than at the same time last year.
“The children most at risk are those born prematurely, they have a much less mature immune system, they haven’t had the benefit of getting antibodies across from them their mother,” Spurrier said. Adelaide mother Sara* is a parent who wishes more full-term babies were eligible for RSV immunisation. Her eight-week-old baby George was hospitalised last month, initially with RSV that then turned into pneumonia.
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