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Rotavirus is a virus that causes diarrhea, mostly in babies and young children. The diarrhea can be severe, and lead to dehydration. Vomiting and fever are also common in babies with rotavirus. Before rotavirus vaccine, rotavirus disease was a common and serious health problem for children in the United States.
Rotavirus is very contagious; it spreads when infants or young children come into contact with an infected personâs body fluids or feces, or items that have come in contact with the feces of an infected person. Most cases of rotavirus occur in children ages 3 months to 35 months old. The primary mode of transmission of rotavirus is the passage of the virus in stool to the mouth of another child, known as a fecal-oral route of transmission. The virus can live for hours on hands and even longer on hard surfaces.