Researchers at Baylor College of Medicine and collaborating institutions have improved our understanding of how rotavirus, the most common cause of acute gastroenteritis in children, makes people sick ...

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.

Rotavirus causes gastroenteritis, a condition that includes diarrhea, deficient nutrient absorption and weight loss. Severe cases result in approximately 128,000 deaths annually in infants and ...

When Paul Offit, MD, was a pediatric resident at the Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh in the late 1970s, some 400 children were admitted each winter with severe dehydration from rotavirus infection.

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 ...

Rotavirus, which mainly affects infants and young children, causes watery diarrhea and vomiting. You can get infants vaccinated at 2 months old to prevent severe rotavirus infections. Speak with a ...

Of all the diseases that the U.S. government announced today that it will no longer recommend vaccines against, rotavirus is by no means the deadliest. Not all children develop substantial symptoms; ...