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“It helps protect and develop different systems of the vulnerable neonates.”

Technically, it's not a vaccine, but a single injection that would be given to infants and neonates born during or entering their first RSV season.

"We have currently 120 neonates who are in incubators, out of which we have 70 neonates with mechanical ventilation, and of course this is where we are extremely concerned," said Unicef spokesman Jonathan Crickx.

Of these various roles, artificial-womb technology is most focused on providing oxygen and removing carbon dioxide, replacing the mechanical ventilators that are often used for neonates.

Marked with the word "neonates", the files revealed how a meeting of the executive team in 2015 had agreed to have the first three deaths examined by an external organisation.