Life-threatening virus that causes vomiting and diarrhea at high levels in the U.S., CDC says [View all]

It took just 48 hours for Ben Lopman’s 18-month-old son to go from being an energetic toddler to totally listless.

Lopman’s son Ruben was suffering from severe dehydration from rotavirus, one of the most common causes of diarrhea and vomiting in babies and children. He was so sick, he ended up in the hospital, desperately needing intravenous fluids to keep up his strength to battle the infection.

Lopman, an infectious disease epidemiologist now at Emory University, was living in London when his son got sick. It was 2008, five years before the United Kingdom approved a vaccine to prevent the highly contagious virus. The boy eventually recovered.

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Rotavirus, a seasonal virus similar to influenza, has been rising across the U.S. since January. With infection rates higher now than this time last year, doctors have fresh concerns that declining vaccinations could lead to more severe illness and a higher surge in the coming years.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/life-threatening-virus-causes-vomiting-201553697.html

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