While in Africa during their winter, your brother worked with a relief organizat
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While in Africa during their winter, your brother worked with a relief organization that handed out aid to children. During the time that he was there, there was an outbreak of acute gastroenteritis. Typical symptoms included watery diarrhea, fever, abdominal pain and vomiting that led to dehydration. It was particularly bad in children under 2. As long as the aid workers were able to keep the children hydrated, most recovered within one to two weeks. Your brother, with his connections at the CDC, was able to have a stool sample analyzed by electron microscopy. The microscopist reported that the stool was packed large spheres that resemble little wheels. What was the most likely agent of the viral enteritis outbreak? Is there a vaccine for most likely agent?
Explanation / Answer
The viral agents are rotavirus, norovirus and adenovirus which are responsible for viral enteritis in under 5 children.
The available vaccine is monovalent rotavirus vaccine. Norovirus infected children rotavirus vaccine only administrated.
Vaccine for norovirus is under research process
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