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Soon in India, a vaccine against diarrhoea virus [1]

After successful clinical trials in Latin America and England, vaccine to fight rotavirus to hit Indian markets in July A new vaccine to fight rotavirus is set to hit the Indian markets in the second week of July. Rotavirus is the leading cause of severe diarrhoea among infants and young children and is responsible for over a lakh deaths of children below the age of five in the country every year.

Publication Date: 
20/06/2008
Indian Express (Mumbai) [2]
Tags:
Diarrhoea [3], Drugs [4], India [5]
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