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The Food and Drug Administration has issued a recommendation that doctors stop using GlaxoSmithKline’s rotavirus vaccine called Rotarix until more studies can be done.
While the FDA says that they don’t believe that there is any clinical risk to patients a pig related virus has been discovered in the vaccine. The virus is not known to cause illness in either humans or animals.
This alert DOES NOT include Merck’s vaccine called Rota Teq which most infants vaccinated in the U.S. receive anyway.
Rotavirus is an illness that can affect infants causing diarrhea and dehydration. bjmdjd
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Food and Drug Administration · Rota Teq · Rotarix · rotavirus
