Falling birth rates shift rotavirus epidemics
Thursday, July 16, 2009 - 13:35
in Health & Medicine
Fewer births in states such as California may be delaying the annual onset of a common intestinal virus in the southwest, according to epidemiologists. The timing of infectious outbreaks in other locations such as the northeast remains more or less unchanged. Rotavirus is a leading cause of diarrhea among children, both in the developed and developing world.