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Call for new rotavirus vaccine
By Melanie Defries,
Nursery World,
13 December 2007
Experts have called for the introduction of a vaccine for young children to control a virus that causes diarrhoea and vomiting.
The Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation has set up a sub-group to consider the benefits of introducing a rotavirus vaccine into the childhood immunisation schedule. Rotavirus gastroenteritis is highly contagious and one of the most common causes of diarrhoea and vomiting in children under five. But it can be largely prevented with a vaccine. The Nappy Study, a two-year joint research project by the Royal College of General Practitioners and the Health Protection Agency, presented at a parliamentary...
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