24 Jan Rotavirus Vaccine Significantly Cuts Child Hospitalizations, Study Says
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Developing and developed countries that require children to be vaccinated against rotavirus “have significantly reduced the number of children admitted to hospitals with the disease, a report showed on Thursday,” Reuters reports (Kelland, 1/20).
Study findings, published in a special supplement to the Pediatric Infectious Disease Journal, note significant declines “in the number of children hospitalized due to rotavirus in countries that include rotavirus vaccines as part of their routine immunization programs,” according to a press release issued by CDC, the GAVI Alliance, PAHO and PATH (1/20).