‘Bear fruit’

Vaccination Against Rotavirus

Tuesday, February 2nd, 2010
Rotavirus

Rotavirus

Vaccination programs against Rotavirus begin to bear fruit. The vaccinations may in the longer term the deaths of hundreds of thousands of children are prevented, is in a new report.

“It is not generally known that pneumonia and diarrhea world’s two biggest killers of children and that it is possible to vaccinate against the main causes of these diseases,” said Mickey Chopra of the United Nations Children UNICEF.

Wednesday published the New England Journal of Medicine a report on the positive effects of vaccination against Rotavirus in Africa and Mexico. (more…)

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