Personal Injury Law

Regulators Urge Temporary Moratorium on Diarrhea Vaccine

By Edward Bills

The discovery of a harmless yet unexplained pig virus in a pediatric diarrhea vaccine has prompted the Food and Drug Administration to urge doctors to stop giving the product to children, The New York Times reports. Officials said the vaccine, Rotarix, is not harmful to children and that parents need not worry if their child has already received the vaccine. The company that makes the vaccine said they would continue to make the drug with the pig virus until they can figure out a way fix the process. A similar vaccine, RotaTeq, is currently available for children.

Full post as published by Bodily Injury Blog on March 24, 2010 (boomark / email).