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What specific type of bowel obstruction in infants led to the 1999 withdrawal of the first licensed rotavirus vaccine?
Answer
Intussusception
The vaccine, RotaShield, was pulled from the U.S. market in 1999 after surveillance data linked it to intussusception, a rare telescoping of one segment of intestine into another.
💡 Did you know?
The rotavirus vaccine was withdrawn in 1999 after causing bowel obstruction in infants, but a safer version later prevented millions of deaths.
Other options people guess
- Volvulus
- Pyloric stenosis
- Meconium ileus
Topics
- vaccines
- public-health
- medicine
- 1990s
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