ACUTE and community health service leads in the Mid West were urging parents to immunise their newborn babies against respiratory syncytial virus (RSV).
This comes as a new immunisation programme was rolled out at University Maternity Hospital Limerick (UMHL) this past weekend.
In UMHL and maternity units across the country, the new monoclonal antibody immunisation will be offered to babies born between September 1, 2024, and February 28, 2025, a time of the highest circulation of RSV, which can infect one in two newborn babies and result in the hospitalisation of the most severely impacted of these infants.
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