New Vaccine Against Rotavirus Approved
Date: 20.2.2006
A new vaccine against one of the most common ailments of childhood won federal approval on 3rd February 2006, six years after a similar vaccine was pulled from the market for injuring scores of babies.
The vaccine is designed to prevent serious illness from rotavirus, an intestinal germ that sickens many babies in the United States and kills hundreds of thousands overseas every year.
Federal experts are expected to recommend, possibly before the month is out, that it be given to all infants, a step that could prevent 50,000 hospitalizations a year in the United States and save the nation more than $1 billion in health care costs and missed work for parents.
"Source":[ http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/02/03/AR2006020302088.html].
