Since the widespread introduction of vaccination programs in 2006, the burden of disease from rotavirus in both the U.S. and abroad has decreased substantially. In fact, vaccination proved so ...

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.

As common infectious diseases go, norovirus is fast and furious. "It usually comes on quickly [and] suddenly with vomiting and diarrhea," says Dr. Jason Newland, a pediatric infectious disease doctor ...

In the post-vaccine era, rotavirus has become just another cause of acute gastroenteritis in most cases. But is there anything new in diagnosis and treatment? To Test or Not to Test? Commercially ...

January 26, 2010 — Pentavalent rotavirus vaccine (RV5) is highly effective against severe rotavirus disease, and even partial immunization provides significant health benefits, according to the ...

The infants who get the rotavirus vaccine aren’t the only ones who benefit. New research shows that older children and even adults were less likely to be hospitalized with the gastrointestinal virus ...

The more children who are vaccinated against rotavirus at your pediatrician's office, the less likely it is that your child will be exposed to the gastrointestinal illness, a new study has concluded.

Rotavirus is a common diarrheal disease that affects young children. Live oral rotavirus vaccines have been used to reduce its incidence in many countries. However, with the onset of the coronavirus ...

A new article published in the journal PLOS Pathogens on October 10, 2019, claims that the common rotavirus may be responsible for some occurrences of type 1 diabetes, a form of diabetes which occurs ...

Using intercellular calcium waves, rotavirus amplifies its ability to cause disease beyond the cells it directly infects. This is the first virus identified to activate ADP-mediated intercellular ...