Both vaccines have since been shown to be 96% effective in reducing hospitalizations for rotavirus through the first 2 years after vaccination.. Dosing and Mixing Vaccine Schedules. Though the two ...

More information: Hanna Bergman et al,Vaccines for preventing rotavirus diarrhoea: vaccines in use, Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews (2021).DOI: 10.1002/14651858.CD008521.pub6 ...

Before the rotavirus vaccine was available, nearly all children got at least one rotavirus disease infection by age 5 and the virus led to more than 500,000 doctor visits, 55,000 to 70,000 ...

Rotavirus vaccine doesn’t work as well in Bangladesh, India, and other developing countries as it does elsewhere. Scientists are exploring why.

In the first four years they were available, vaccines against rotavirus prevented more than 176,000 hospitalizations, 242,000 emergency department visits, and 1.1 million doctor's visits among ...

Prior to the vaccine, approximately half a million children worldwide died from rotavirus, but by 2013, 7 years after the vaccine's introduction, that number was estimated to be 215,000, a more ...

Until a safe, effective vaccine for rotavirus was developed in the 2000s, the virus led to 55,000 to 70,000 hospitalizations and 20 to 60 deaths a year in the U.S. due to severe dehydration from ...

Unlike other common causes of diarrhea, rotavirus cannot be prevented through improvements in water, sanitation, and hygiene, so vaccines are essential to prevent complications and childhood deaths.

Rotavirus gastroenteritis is the leading cause of diarrhea-associated hospitalization and death in children younger than 5 years of age,1 with more than 85% of the approximately 200,000 annual rota ...

Countries that vaccinate babies against rotavirus, which can cause severe diarrhea and kill in days, have significantly reduced the number of children admitted to hospitals with the disease, a ...