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Parashar UD Bresee JS Gentsch JR Glass RI Rotavirus Emerg Infect Dis 199844561570 httpsdoiorg103201eid0404980406. . These slides are intended to support your advocacy efforts. Please incorporate those that may be useful to you in your presentations.. For questions, please contact . jen.farber@gmmb.com. . . Special thanks to the ROTA Council’s Partners: Johns Hopkins University, PATH, US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation for their technical guidance and expertise in developing these slides. . Introduction. . Rotavirus . vaccines lead to significant reductions in severe and fatal diarrhea in both vaccinated and unvaccinated children. Rotavirus vaccines are saving lives and improving health in countries where children have access to them. . N . Engl. J Med 2011;365:1108-17. Vanessa Craven. Clinical Research Fellow. Image removed for copyright reasons. The Global Picture. D&V in < 5yrs . 111 million stay at home. 25 million clinic visits. 2. Global Impact of Gastroenteritis . www.who.int/vaccine_research/diseases/diarrhoeal/en/print.html. 3. FOODBORNE GASTROENTERITIS. www.cdc.gov/ncidod/dbmd/diseaseinfo/foodborneinfections_g.htm. Bacterial Agents. /*str:string,step:number,return:Array*/functionchunkData(str,step){varcolNames=[];/*colNames:Array*/varlen=str.length;vari=0;/*i:number*/for(;ilen;i+=step){if(i+steplen){colNames.push(str.substring(i, COMMON, SEVERE, DEVASTATING, PREVENTABLE. THE LATEST EVIDENCE & WHAT’S NEEDED TO STOP ILLNESSES AND DEATHS. ROTA COUNCIL RECOMMENDATIONS. 33. Despite the WHO recommendation that rotavirus vaccines be introduced into every country’s national immunization program, about . a . Viral pathogen that is the leading cause of . severe diarrhea . in . children. . Rotavirus was discovered in 1973 by a team of scientists in Melbourne, Australia that were led by Dr. Ruth Bishop.. Rotavirus deaths account for approximately 37 percent of childhood diarrheal deaths and 3.4 percent of all deaths in children under five. Nearly every child is at risk of infection, regardless of loc Murase Y, Maeda S, Yamada H, Ohkado A, Chikamatsu K, Mizuno K, et al. Clonal Expansion of Multidrug-Resistant and Extensively Drug-Resistant Tuberculosis, Japan. Emerg Infect Dis. 2010;16(6):948-954. https://doi.org/10.3201/eid1606.091844. Li J, Collins WE, Wirtz RA, Rathore D, Lal A, McCutchan TF. Geographic Subdivision of the Range of the Malaria Parasite, Plasmodium vivax. Emerg Infect Dis. 2001;7(1):35-42. https://doi.org/10.3201/eid0701.700035. January 2023. Late vaccination. If a child misses a rotavirus dose or series for any reason, late vaccination for that child can take place . at any time before 24 months of age. The interrupted vaccine schedule should be resumed . Parashar UD, Bresee JS, Gentsch JR, Glass RI. Rotavirus. Emerg Infect Dis. 1998;4(4):561-570. https://doi.org/10.3201/eid0404.980406. Pelkonen PM, Tarvainen K, Hynninen A, Kallio ER, Henttonen H, Palva A, et al. Cowpox with Severe Generalized Eruption, Finland. Emerg Infect Dis. 2003;9(11):1458-1461. https://doi.org/10.3201/eid0911.020814. Parashar UD, Gibson CJ, Bresee JS, Glass RI. Rotavirus and Severe Childhood Diarrhea. Emerg Infect Dis. 2006;12(2):304-306. https://doi.org/10.3201/eid1202.050006.