The outbreak of acute gastroenteritis (AGE) caused by at least three viruses, rotavirus, adenovirus and norovirus, in the southern Philippine city of Zamboanga has grown to some 3,000 cases since it...

Singapore health officials report investigating a surge of patients with gastroenteritis in the Owen Road area. As of 23 May 2016, more than 180 cases have been reported.  Stool samples collected from...

In a follow-up to earlier reports of a gastroenteritis outbreak in Zamboanga City, Assistant City Health Officer Dr. Kibtiya Uddin disclosed on Monday that a total of 1,538 cases of gastroenteritis has...

Every year, some 900,000 children are hospitalized and 100,000 die from rotavirus infection in India. This has prompted the Indian government to add the rotavirus vaccine to the Universal Immunization...

The Mozambican Health Ministry announced recently plans to battle two devastating infectious diseases in the southeast Africa country- rotavirus and trachoma. Health officials announced they will be...

The El Salvador Health Ministry is reporting a significant increase in confirmed cases of rotavirus in 2015, compared to the same period last year, according to an elsalvador.com report (computer translated). In...

A new study by Baylor College of Medicine and Texas Children’s Hospital researchers shows that a vaccine for rotavirus in infants reduces the rates of infection. In the study of children enrolled in...

Sanofi Pasteur, the vaccines division of Sanofi, announced today the start of a phase III clinical trial in India for its investigational rotavirus vaccine, developed and manufactured by its affiliate...

The island nation in the central tropical Pacific Ocean has reported a rotavirus outbreak that has affected some 500, mostly young children, and killed two, according to a Radio New Zealand report Thursday. Dr...

A new rotavirus vaccine that has the potential to save over half a million lives worldwide each year has reached a pivotal milestone after clinical trials results found the vaccine provided a strong immune...