Lives could be saved by removing age restrictions on rotavirus vaccination, study suggests
Tuesday, October 23, 2012 - 18:00
in Health & Medicine
A new study, which suggests that the additional children's lives saved by removing the age restrictions for rotavirus vaccination in low- and middle-income countries would be much greater than any extra deaths from vaccine-associated complications (namely, intussusception-a form of bowel obstruction), has informed policy regarding the age restrictions for this vaccine.