Adverse reactions to rotavirus vaccines globally 2011

This statistic displays the most common adverse events from rotavirus vaccines by strain as of 2011. During this time, six percent of those immunized with live reassortant human-bovine rotavirus reported diarrhea as adverse event. Rotavirus is a highly contagious viral disease and is the most common cause of severe diarrhea in infants and young children. It causes about 1 billion U.S. dollars in the United States alone every year. Vaccination for rotavirus is often made from a single strain or from combining five human-bovine viruses