More Rotavirus Vaccination Means Less Rotavirus

The more children who are vaccinated against rotavirus at your pediatrician's office, the less likely it is that your child will be exposed to the gastrointestinal illness, a new study has concluded. That might sound like a no-brainer, but with vaccine coverage as low as 10 percent at some practices included in this study, these findings have significant implications for children unable to be vaccinated against rotavirus. Kids were more than three times more likely to have rotavirus if they were patients at a location where less than 40 percent of other patients received at least one dose of the rotavirus vaccine (compared to locations with at least 80 percent coverage).
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