This highly infectious virus causes severe diarrhoea in young children


How the rotavirus gets transmitted from an infected person to a baby or young child. — Positive Parenting

Rotavirus is a highly contagious virus that is transmitted by the faecal-oral route.

The viruses are shed in high amount in the stool of infected people and spread easily through hand-to-mouth and close person-to-person contact.

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