Rotavirus vaccine for all children

According to group of experts, a new vaccine to preclude rotavirus, the most common cause of serious diarrhea in children, should be given to all infants. That brings to 15 the number of illnesses for which vaccines are recommended.

The Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices, that counsels the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on vaccine policy, at its meeting on Tuesday in Atlanta voted to recommend RotaTeq, a Merck’s liquid vaccine that will be dosed three times to children younger than 32 weeks.

A great deal of parents have never heard of rotavirus. But those parents who have had a child suffer through rotavirus claim they will never forget the experience.

Marty Porter of Cumming in Georgia recalls the terrible week, fiv View the rest of this article