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KUANTAN: A total of 15 children, aged between two and 11 and a 27-year-old woman who experienced symptoms of stomach pain, vomiting, diarrhoea, and fever after visiting the Che Minah Sayang Recreational Park in Maran on Thursday (Sept 5), were found to be infected with rotavirus.
AN outbreak of rotavirus has infected at least 15 children and a 27-year old woman after their visit to the Che Minah Sayang Recreational Park in Maran, Pahang, Sinar Harian reported.
KUALA TERENGGANU: The Terengganu Health Department has denied claims of an increase in rotavirus cases at Sultanah Nur Zahirah Hospital.
KUALA TERENGGANU: The Terengganu Health Department has denied claims that there was an increase in rotavirus cases at Hospital Sultanah Nur Zahirah (HSNZ).
LAGOS, Nov. 16 (Xinhua) -- Lagos, the economic center of Nigeria, has added the rotavirus vaccine to its routine immunization (RI) program to protect children under the age of five from diarrhea, a local official said on Wednesday.
KOTA KINABALU: The Sabah Health Department is investigating claims of rotavirus cases surging in Tenom district.
LONDON (Reuters) - Supplies of a vaccine to prevent the deadly rotavirus infection in children have either run out in Kenya, Tanzania, Senegal and Cameroon or are close to doing so, officials close to the roll-out told Reuters, after disruptions at drugmaker GSK.
This highly infectious virus causes severe diarrhoea in children and is a potential killer.
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KOTA KINABALU: The Tenom district has experienced a surge in acute gastroenteritis (AGE) cases in the past fortnight, predominantly affecting children.
Rotavirus, a contagious virus that is transmitted by the faecal-oral route, is highly infectious and hard to kill.
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Problems involving the gastrointestinal system are common in children and can develop into something more serious.
NAIROBI, Feb. 22 (Xinhua) -- Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance, said Thursday that it has made great progress in reaching children who have never received any vaccine in the Horn of Africa and hopes to reach millions in fragile settings that are outside government health services in the coming years.
SEREMBAN: Bathing pools at the Ulu Bendul Recreational Park will be closed to the public until Sept 26 for clean-up work, after three individuals who visited the area fell ill.
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