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Viral gastro-enteritis is a sporadic, often seasonal viral infection sometimes referred to as gastric flu, Rotavirus or Norwalk virus, which can affect both individuals and quite commonly large groups of
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Before rotavirus vaccines were available, rotavirus was the most common cause of severe gastroenteritis in infants and young children in the United States and worldwide. Almost all children were infected by age 5 years. Before vaccine was
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Rotavirus is a wheel-shaped virus under an electron microscope ("rota" = wheel) and is the major cause of viral gastroenteritis in children worldwide. Infected person will experience diarrhea, and this may be severe. Extensive loss of fluids (
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Rotavirus is a common viral infection causing gastroenteritis, affecting adults and children. More severe symptoms occur in children. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), rotavirus affects approximately 55,000 children
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My son has had diarrhea for a couple of days and everyday it is getting worse and worse. It smells horrible (way worse than normal) and he is going 10 times a day. I think it might be rotavirus but there isn't any vomiting. He is not dehydrated so
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Diarrhea is a condition where there is an increase in the number of loose bowel movements in a given day. A rotavirus is a wheel-shaped organism that commonly infects children. Rotavirus diarrhea therefore, is a condition characterized by an
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Rotavirus gastroenteritis is extremely common in children. It is estimated that every child will have at least one rotavirus infection before the age of five. Most infections occur among children aged between three months and three years. Rotavirus
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It was not until 1973 that human rotavirus was identified as the cause of severe childhood diarrhea. In the United States and most European countries, serious rotavirus cases occur, but the final outcomes are often very different from those that
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• ROTAVIRUS (noun) The noun ROTAVIRUS has 1 sense: 1. the reovirus causing infant enteritis Familiarity information: ROTAVIRUS used as a noun is very rare.
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We found out today that my 5 year old niece has rotavirus, I was wondering how long it will be until she starts to feel better and how long cases of rotavirues usually last.
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