St. Louis health officials have noticed an interesting trend in the city; rotavirus infections have spiked every other year, including last year when 65 children fell ill, according to a St. Louis ...
The Department of Health and Human Services has removed the rotavirus vaccine, along with five others, from the list of universally recommended childhood immunizations. This makes the U.S. an outlier.
Rotavirus is a highly contagious virus that spreads easily and can make babies and young children very sick. This year, doctors have been seeing more cases earlier in the season than usual. Rotavirus, ...
Ever since routine immunization against rotavirus launched in 2006, the U.S. has seen a marked drop in the number of infants and young children hospitalized with gastroenteritis, a recent study in ...
The introduction of the rotavirus vaccine has had a profound impact on global pediatric deaths from acute gastroenteritis and diarrhea, but its footprint has been uneven and challenging to track ...
Here's what to know about rotavirus tests and the vaccine.
Rotavirus is a leading cause of severe gastroenteritis and diarrhea globally, and nearly all children have been infected with rotavirus by age 5 years. Until a safe, effective vaccine for rotavirus ...