How to Use rotavirus in a Sentence

rotavirus

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  • Not a roseola, not a pink eye or a rotavirus, not a hand, foot or mouth disease.
    — Georgia Garvey, chicagotribune.com, 7 Dec. 2020
  • Compare that to the case of RotaShield, the first vaccine licensed to protect against rotavirus infection.
    — Helen Branswell, STAT, 23 Apr. 2018
  • Forty deaths a year from rotavirus, while tragic, does not constitute a serious health risk.
    — Wired, WIRED, 21 Dec. 2009
  • Offit developed a vaccine for rotavirus that has saved hundreds of thousands of lives since its approval in 2006.
    — Tom Avril, Philly.com, 8 Sep. 2017
  • Pathogens can lurk in fecal matter, like the highly contagious norovirus and rotavirus, which can both cause food poisoning and the stomach flu, along with cold and flu viruses, Reynolds says.
    — Korin Miller, SELF, 15 Feb. 2018
  • The Centers for Disease Control estimates that almost every child will have a bout of rotavirus before their fifth birthdays.
    — Joan Morris, The Mercury News, 18 May 2017
  • But in a California rotavirus outbreak in 2017, a child who had not been vaccinated still died of the disease, two months before its second birthday.
    — Richard Conniff, National Geographic, 16 Aug. 2019
  • Examples of vaccines that can be lyophilized include shots for preventing shingles or rotavirus.
    — Jared S. Hopkins, WSJ, 30 Mar. 2021
  • And with a simple pill, mini antibodies could be delivered directly to the gut, which could help to block a number of pathogens, for example rotavirus, that enter the body through the digestive tract.
    — Christina Szalinski, Discover Magazine, 22 Feb. 2023
  • The problem with a rotavirus vaccine was that another company had already developed one but then had to take it off the market because it was found to increase the risk of bowel obstruction in infants.
    — Denise Grady, New York Times, 19 June 2018
  • Jismary also tested positive for norovirus and rotavirus in the intestine and respiratory syncytial virus, or RSV, in the lungs.
    — Rick Jervis, USA TODAY, 7 Sep. 2023
  • But other viruses, such as rotavirus (especially in children), adenovirus, sapovirus, and astrovirus, may also cause the illness.1 Despite the name, the stomach flu doesn't have anything to do with influenza.
    — Anne Harding, Health, 9 Mar. 2023
  • The rotavirus vaccine protects against an illness that can cause severe diarrhea.4 This illness can be severe and result in hospitalization and even death from dehydration.
    — Parents Editors, Parents, 14 Nov. 2023
  • Vaccinating Nigerian infants against rotavirus can yield benefits worth a whopping $126 per dollar spent, thanks to the reduced toll of diarrhoea.
    — The Economist, 16 Nov. 2019
  • Also detected in some of the wells during April testing were illness-causing pathogens such as salmonella, rotavirus and cryptosporidium.
    — USA TODAY, 2 Aug. 2019
  • However, developing vaccines based on viral proteins takes anywhere from years, such as for the human papilloma virus, to several decades, such as for rotavirus.
    — Sanjay Mishra, The Conversation, 21 May 2020
  • There are reports of salmonella, rotavirus and E. coli, among other contaminants, and people are prohibited from swimming or fishing in the Odessa, Kherson and Mykolaiv regions, the statement said.
    — Kelsey Ables, Washington Post, 20 June 2023
  • The following year, a new vaccine against rotavirus, which causes diarrhea in babies and young children, was taken off the market after being linked to the risk of potentially deadly intestinal blockages, according to STAT.
    — Julie Washington, cleveland, 26 Jan. 2020
  • Globally, cervical cancer and rotavirus infections kill hundreds of thousands of women and children every year.
    — Denise Grady, New York Times, 19 June 2018
  • That list could include a range of illnesses such as pneumonia, influenza, rubella, the common cold, hepatitis, rotavirus and human papillomavirus.
    — NBC News, 31 Oct. 2019
  • The instructions for RotaTeq, the vaccine for rotavirus, urge caution when administering it to infants in homes with immunodeficient people.
    — Nate Trela, USA TODAY, 31 May 2023
  • The vaccines which were mainly based on rotavirus strains predominantly found in Europe and North America is believed to exhibit a lower efficacy in Africa due to the circulation of different strain in the continent.
    — Uwagbale Edward-Ekpu, Quartz Africa, 13 Apr. 2020
  • Following the schedule, babies should be vaccinated against hepatitis B at birth and at two months are vaccinated against illnesses like rotavirus, diphtheria, and polio.
    — Ariel Loop As Told To Korin Miller, SELF, 26 Aug. 2019
  • Babies vaccinated against rotavirus, the leading cause of severe diarrhea in infants and young children worldwide, may have a small risk of a dangerous intestinal blockage, researchers reported Tuesday.
    — NBC News, 20 Feb. 2018
  • Eventually, two newer rotavirus vaccines with a lower risk of complications were developed.
    — Sarah Zhang, The Atlantic, 14 Apr. 2021
  • The team found positive test results declined during lockdown for pathogens such as adenovirus, rotavirus, norovirus, Escherichia coli, Shigella, Cyclospora cayetanensis, and Giardia lamblia.
    — Julia Ries, Health, 30 Aug. 2023
  • In recent years, as genetic technologies have advanced, researchers have begun to investigate a handful of other infection-resistance mutations against other pathogens, among them hepatitis B virus and rotavirus.
    — Katherine J. Wu, The Atlantic, 25 July 2022
  • Veterinarians regularly inoculate animals—both pets and those in natural habitats—against a range of diseases, including rabies, hepatitis and the rotavirus.
    — Georgi Kantchev, WSJ, 27 May 2021
  • Coverage rates for rotavirus vaccination have risen globally since 2010, according to World Health Organization data.
    — Thomas J. Bollyky, Foreign Affairs, 23 Apr. 2021
  • Second-generation rotavirus vaccines were later licensed and deployed, and post-marketing safety evaluations found no increases in risk of intestinal obstruction.
    — Wayne C. Koff and Michelle A. Williams, STAT, 23 Dec. 2020

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