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A register-based study spanning 181,999 infants and four RSV seasons found acute otitis media dropped 44% and RSV detections 83% in infants under 12 months after a nirsevimab immunisation programme began.
Most acute ear infections settle on their own, and antibiotics barely change symptoms in the first day. Their benefit is real but modest, which is why guidelines allow a short period of watchful waiting.
A decade of eardrum repair delivered on Country across nine Queensland communities produced closure rates below metropolitan benchmarks — and a follow-up rate most urban surgical services do not achieve.