Rotavirus

New Vaccine For Deadly Childhood Virus Passes Final Hurdle

Published in TB and Outbreaks Week, November 10th, 1997

A new vaccine against rotavirus, an infection that kills hundreds of thousands of children around the world each year, has cleared its last major hurdle, showing that it works in developing countries.

Rotavirus is the leading cause of severe diarrhea in childhood. While a major cause of illness in the United States, it strikes especially hard in poor countries.

The vaccine has been tested on nearly 18,000 children and has already been shown to be highly effective in the United States and other developed countries. However, some experts wondered whether it would do as good a job in poor countries, where bad nutrition and infection with other viruses...

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Source: TB and Outbreaks Week (1997-11-10)

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