This post will mainly focus on brief description of Rota-virus after my comprehensive research about it. I don't know if you have figure out my absence during the last week and the reason behind it that my niece and my son has been infected by Rota-virus.
Rota-virus as defined in Wikipedia is the most common cause of severe diarrhea among infants and young children under five years and almost every children under this age have been affected once with the virus. A research has been made that result on more than 450,000 child under five years of age still die from Rota-virus infection each year in which most of them from developing countries. Additionally, almost 2 million of children have been infected and become ill.
Symptoms:
Treatment:
My son and my niece have been stayed in the hospital for 3 days in which they have been given more water to drink (glucose) and salted rice water, salted yogurt drinks, vegetable and chicken soups with salt.
Prevention:
Early vaccination to children has been the primary prevention and the World Health Organization have been recommended that the vaccination should be applied on all public health authorities with other vaccinations required and in all national immunization programs.
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