Europe's medicines regulator has backed using AstraZeneca's preventative COVID-19 therapy as a treatment for the disease and also endorsed another medicine as preventative option for another common virus.
The regulator's recommendations are usually followed by the European Commission when it takes a final decision on drug approvals.
Evusheld had previously had largely secured global approvals, including in Europe, as a preventative therapy for people with compromised immune systems who see little or no benefit from COVID-19 vaccines. Evusheld, first launched in December, generated US$914 million in the first half of 2022 for the Anglo-Swedish drugmaker.
RSV causes thousands of hospitalisations and deaths globally each year in toddlers and the elderly, but the complex molecular structure of the virus and safety concerns have stymied efforts to develop a vaccine since the virus was first discovered in 1956.
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