Rotavirus Vaccine Urged for Babies. RotaTeq Recently Won FDA Approval. February 22, 2006. By Justin Gillis. Every healthy newborn in the United States should receive a new vaccine designed to ...

The next two vaccines -- RotaTeq (Merck), a bovine-human reassortant pentavalent vaccine and Rotarix (GSK), a human rotavirus monovalent G1P[8] strain vaccine -- were held to even higher standards ...

Rotavirus vaccines are orally administered, live, attenuated viruses that must infect their host's intestine to elicit protective immunity.

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 ...

Discover how Professor Shabir Madhi is advancing maternal vaccines to safeguard newborns from RSV, GBS, and more.

The oral human neonatal rotavirus vaccine (RV3-BB) was developed from the human neonatal rotavirus strain RV3 (G3P[6]), which was identified in the stool of infants with asymptomatic infection. 10 ...

Rotavirus is the most common cause of severe gastroenteritis among young children worldwide. Data are needed to assess the efficacy of the rotavirus vaccine in African children.We conducted a rando ...

Most babies who receive the rotavirus vaccine don’t have any side effects. When side effects do appear, they’re usually mild.

Before rotavirus vaccines were available, most children were infected before age 5, and the virus contributed to roughly half a million child deaths worldwide, ...

Medically reviewed by Jonathan B. Jassey, DOMedically reviewed by Jonathan B. Jassey, DO The rotavirus vaccine provides a safe and effective defense against rotavirus disease and its complications.