In Denmark, pediatrician Michael Thwing once saw nearly 20 infants admitted simultaneously with rotavirus. His experience in ...

Oral vaccines promise painless, needle-free protection—but the human gut evolved to destroy exactly what vaccines are made of ...

A couple in Cloquet is sharing their experience after their daughter was hospitalized with rotavirus following a missed ...

One of the changes that the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services recently made to the childhood immunization schedule ...

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 ...

The rotavirus vaccine is the only live oral vaccine on the CDC's recommended schedule of childhood immunizations. This fact, along with differing dose schedules for the two available vaccines and the ...

Rotavirus is a highly contagious infection most common in children under 5. Adults can also develop it, but it’s usually less severe. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reports that ...

The infants who get the rotavirus vaccine aren’t the only ones who benefit. New research shows that older children and even adults were less likely to be hospitalized with the gastrointestinal virus ...

Rotavirus diabetes link Rotavirus can accelerate the develoment of type 1 diabetes in children by getting rogue immune cells to attack the pancreas, new research in mice suggests. The findings could ...

As common infectious diseases go, norovirus is fast and furious. "It usually comes on quickly [and] suddenly with vomiting and diarrhea," says Dr. Jason Newland, a pediatric infectious disease doctor ...

Rotavirus is a common diarrheal disease that affects young children. Live oral rotavirus vaccines have been used to reduce its incidence in many countries. However, with the onset of the coronavirus ...