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Listen to “VEC Vaccine Notes,” a video and podcast series presented by the Vaccine Education Center at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia. Each episode offers vaccine information in a convenient format, so families have the answers they need to make informed decisions, including details and context that addresses what they may have heard in the news or in conversation with others.
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Wednesday Jan 28, 2026
Wednesday Jan 28, 2026
Charlotte Moser, Co-Director of the Vaccine Education Center at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, talks about rotavirus and the vaccines that protect against it. She also addresses common questions and discusses the relative risks and benefits of the disease and vaccines.
Watch the episode to find out:
- Why rotavirus vaccine is a good example of the robust nature of the vaccine safety monitoring systems in the U.S.
- The symptoms of rotavirus, which are often more recognizable to parents than the name of this virus
- The effects of rotavirus on babies in the U.S. each year before a vaccine was available
- The similarities and differences between the two rotavirus vaccines used in the U.S.
- Which version uses vaccine strains developed at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
- What we now understand about the intestinal blockage, called intussusception, that caused the first rotavirus vaccine to be removed from use in the U.S.
- And why that vaccine is still used in some other countries
- Why the rotavirus vaccine is given during a very specific period of infancy
To learn more about rotavirus and the vaccine to prevent it, please visit https://bit.ly/vec-rotavirus.
Questions? Submit the VEC Vaccine Notes form, https://bit.ly/contact-vec-vaccine-notes.
For other vaccines, diseases or general questions about vaccines, check out https://vaccine.chop.edu.
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