Tummy bug jabs 'should be routine'

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A study looked at the effect of giving rotavirus vaccine to more than 2,500 children aged between six and 14 weeks in six European countries.

The gastroenteritis virus is the most common cause of diarrhoea in children under the age of five.

Two doses of the RIX4414 vaccine, given in pill form, were administered to the randomly-selected children along with their usual immunisation treatments.

Doctors monitored the children as well as 1,302 babies who received a non-active placebo vaccine.

Over a period of two years 24 vaccinated babies suffered severe gastroenteritis episodes compared with 127 from the placebo group - a vaccine success rate of 90%.

Professor Timo Vesikari, from the University of Tampere in Finland, and colleagues, wrote in The Lancet medical journal: "Our findings confirm the high incidence of rotavirus gastroenteritis during the first two years of life and, hence, a need for long-term protection induced by rotavirus vaccination..

"Our study findings show that, if integrated into routine infant immunisation schedules, vaccination with RIX4414 could result in significant reduction not only of rotavirus disease burden but also of severe paediatric gastroenteritis during the first two years of life."