Sentence examples for rotavirus from inspiring English sources

Since 2008, when Seguro Popular began providing a vaccine against rotavirus, a common cause of diarrhoea, deaths from the illness have fallen by 60%.

One of the main causes of diarrhoea is rotavirus, so the development, four years ago, of a vaccine against this virus might have been thought good news for the poor world.

And despite its rotavirus attack, AHP still has an attractive vaccines division that may generate $1.5 billion of sales by 2003.Both companies have respectable, if not spectacular, product pipelines, which may lead to some interesting new drugs for treating cancer and infection, as well as strengthening their existing ranges.

It was not, though, because the trials were carried out only in rich countries and aid agencies were unwilling to subsidise the distribution in the poor world of a vaccine whose efficacy was unproven there.That has just changed with the publication in the Lancet of clinical trials that tested the efficacy of rotavirus vaccine in Bangladesh, Ghana, Kenya, Mali and Vietnam.

Various highly contagious viruses are to blame, but rotavirus is one of the most frequent causes.

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control estimates that prior to the introduction of a rotavirus vaccine in 2006, every child in the country had been infected by age five.

They include the norovirus, which causes winter vomiting, and rotavirus, which results in severe diarrhoea and kills thousands of children in developing countries.

"The kind of viruses that are susceptible to this are the rhinoviruses, which cause the common cold, noravirus, which causes winter vomiting, rotavirus, which cause gastroenteritis.

All babies will be routinely offered the vaccine against rotavirus from two months old".

Until recently, in the United States and other wealthy countries, diseases such as measles, pertussis and rotavirus — which kill hundreds of thousands of infants in the developing world each year — had virtually disappeared.

Nearly half the population is undernourished, rural sanitation facilities are rare, malaria accounts for more than a quarter of all childhood deaths, and easily preventable diarrheal diseases such as rotavirus are common.