A new vaccine against rotavirus..

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New vaccine vs. rotavirus has promise

Associated Press

Nov. 1, 2004 12:00 AM

A new vaccine against rotavirus, the diarrheal infection that kills

millions of children worldwide, does not appear to raise the risk of

serious bowel blockages that caused a previous vaccine to be pulled

from the market five years ago, doctors reported Sunday.

The new vaccine, Rotarix, was recently licensed in Mexico and is

expected to go on sale there this year. Its maker, Belgium-based

GlaxoKline Biologicals, plans to seek similar approvals

throughout Latin America, Asia and Europe, and to launch a study in

the United States aimed at getting it approved for American infants.

Doctors tested the vaccine in more than 63,000 infants in Latin

America and Finland and reported results Sunday at an American Society

for Microbiology meeting.