Source Feed: The Globe and Mail
Author: Alanna Smith
Publication Date: August 4, 2025 - 06:00
Quebec’s RSV immunization program greatly lowered infant hospitalizations, study says
August 4, 2025
Quebec’s universal respiratory syncytial virus immunization program proved more than 85 per cent effective in reducing infant hospitalizations, emergency-room consultations and intensive-care admissions, according to a new study.
The province was the first in Canada to announce a publicly funded nirsevimab program for the 2024-25 RSV season. Ontario, Nunavut, Yukon and the Northwest Territories later followed suit.
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