Discovery of new transmission patterns may help prevent rotavirus epidemics

Thursday, July 16, 2009 - 16:49 in Health & Medicine

New vaccines have the potential to prevent or temper epidemics of the childhood diarrhea-causing disease rotavirus, protect the unvaccinated and raise the age at which the infection first appears in children, federal researchers reported in a study today.

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