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Rotavirus Vaccines May Trigger Type 1 Diabetes

Published in TB and Outbreaks Week, August 29th, 2000

Infection with a rotavirus, the commonest cause of gastroenteritis in children, may lead to childhood diabetes, according to reports in the August 12, 2000, edition of New Scientist and the journal Diabetes (vol. 49:1319).

Although this suggests that rotavirus vaccines could help prevent diabetes, it also raises fears that the vaccines themselves could trigger the disease.

Australian researchers discovered the link after a six-year study of 54 babies. "It's the most important piece of work I've heard of in a long time," says diabetes researcher Glenys Thomson at the University of Berkeley in California. "The evidence so far is...

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