More than 110 million children in India aged younger than 5 years have diarrhea, with an average of 3.2 episodes a year. It’s estimated that 7% to 8% of community-based episodes are due to rotavirus—a total of 25 million to 28 million episodes in young children a year, according to…
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Rotavirus is a leading cause of severe infant diarrhea, causing an estimated 100,000 deaths each year in India, according to the World Health Organization. While most young children in the world contract rotavirus at some point in their early childhood, the disease course is usually much more severe for children…
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Infants given RotaTeq, a rotavirus vaccine, had no increased risk of intussusception after immunization compared with infants not given RotaTeq, according to the 4-year Vaccine Safety Datalink (VSD) study. The multiple-site study, conducted in the United States and published earlier this year in the Journal of the American Medical Association,…
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Health Impact and Cost-Effectiveness of a Domestically-Produced Rotavirus Vaccine in India: A Model Based Analysis
Each year, rotavirus gastroenteritis claims the lives of an estimated 215,000 children under five years of age; 22% of these deaths are estimated to…
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