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Friday, 6/26, 10:31 PM

Rotavirus is surging in the Bay Area as vaccination rates slip

  • Wastewater monitoring shows elevated levels of rotavirus — a highly contagious cause of severe diarrhea and vomiting in young children — across several Bay Area communities, part of a national rise that infectious-disease experts link to slipping childhood vaccination rates.

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