Rotavirus vaccine joins other child-health measures

The verification followed earlier successes in Colombia and Ecuador.

Public health teams used community-wide treatment and surveillance.

A dated statement recognized India’s introduction of vaccine against a major cause of childhood diarrhoea.

The new immunization option aimed to reduce severe rotavirus disease in children.

Early introduction covered selected states before wider expansion.

The results of a ring-vaccination study in Guinea showed high protection against Ebola.

Participants, health workers and contact-tracing teams made the outbreak trial possible.

The trial offered vaccine to people linked to new Ebola cases to study whether infection could be prevented.

The published results came after the major outbreak and informed later prevention efforts.

A partnership aimed to make paediatric benznidazole more accessible.