Rotavac rotavirus vaccine
Vacuna Rotavac contra el rotavirus
- Date
- 2014 · confidence high
- Place
- Bharat Biotech, Genome Valley, Hyderabad, Telangana, India
- Credited to
- AIIMS New Delhi, Bharat Biotech and international collaborators
- Field
- Life & health
What it is
Oral vaccine based on strain 116E, isolated in 1985 from newborns in Delhi who became infected without falling ill. At a dollar a dose, it was added to India's immunisation schedule and to other countries' programmes.
What it led to
- reduction of infant deaths from severe diarrhoea
- development of affordable vaccines in India