Is there a vaccine against RSV? After nearly 60 years, many potential candidates came at the same time

Published Date: 02 Mar 2023

You may not have heard of respiratory syncytial virus (RSV). However, it killed more than 100,000 people worldwide in 2019, making it the leading cause of death among children under the age of one.

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