August 2018 Summer Update
Dear Colleagues, Next week is the International Rotavirus Symposium in Minsk, Belarus. There will be much to digest and discuss. Since the 2016 Symposium in Australia, dozens of new publications and reviews have described how rotavirus vaccines are saving lives and...
New Research: Rotavirus vaccine cuts infant diarrhea deaths by a third in Malawi
A major new study has shown that rotavirus vaccination reduced infant diarrhea deaths by one-third in rural Malawi, a region with high levels of child deaths. The study led by scientists at the University of Liverpool, University College London, Johns Hopkins...
Searching for solutions to deaths and hospitalization from serious childhood diseases like rotavirus diarrhea
This article originally appeared in News Hour on August 4, 2018. Rotavirus is one of the several viruses known to cause a self-limited gastroenteritis, better known as diarrhea. Fluid stool losses may be dramatic, and death from dehydration is not uncommon,...