Uzbekistan to vaccinate children against rotavirus
11/10/2013 11:30
Uzbekistan to vaccinate children against rotavirus
11/10/2013 11:30
Tashkent, Uzbekistan (UzDaily.com) -- Uzbekistan will start to vaccinate children at the age of up to three months against rotavirus in the second half of 2014.
Deputy head of department on sanitary-epidemiology supervision of the Ministry of Healthcare of Uzbekistan Dilorom Tursunova said that the vaccination against rotavirus will be included to national immunization calendar.
She underlined that for a long time the vaccine was available only in the United States and Europe. She said that with start of vaccination Uzbekistan is planning to eliminate this virus in the country, even there were low number of cases with the virus.
Rotavirus is the most common cause of severe diarrhoea among infants and young children. It is a genus of double-stranded RNA virus in the family Reoviridae.
Nearly every child in the world has been infected with rotavirus at least once by the age of five. Immunity develops with each infection, so subsequent infections are less severe; adults are rarely affected. There are five species of this virus, referred to as A, B, C, D, and E. Rotavirus A, the most common species, causes more than 90% of infections in humans.
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