According to WHO, today gastroenteritis represent a real health emergency: every year, around the world, infection caused by rotavirus (the first cause for gastroenteritis) kills about half a million deaths under the age of 5. 
Approximately 80% of these deaths happens in developing countries, while in industrialized countries mortality is low. But even though the average is limited to a few cases per year, the rotavirus remains however in western countries the leading cause of hospitalization for diarrhea within 5 years of life.

The European Society for Pediatric Infectious Diseases recently published the update to its 2014 Recommendations for Rotavirus Vaccination in Europe. To learn more, go to the article!

Authors: Timo Vesikari, Pierre Van Damme, Carlo Giaquinto, Ron Dagan, Alfredo Guarino, Hania Szajewska, Vytautas Usonis

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