March 22, 2010 4:22 p.m. EDT(CNN) -- Federal health authorities recommended Monday that doctors suspend using Rotarix, one of two vaccines licensed in the United States against rotavirus, saying the vaccine is contaminated with material from a pig virus.
The contaminant material is DNA from porcine circovirus 1, a virus from pigs that is not known to cause disease in humans or animals - About 1 million children in the United States and about 30 million worldwide have gotten Rotarix vaccine.
The contaminant material is DNA from porcine circovirus 1, a virus from pigs that is not known to cause disease in humans or animals - About 1 million children in the United States and about 30 million worldwide have gotten Rotarix vaccine.
Rotavirus disease kills more than 500,000 infants around the world each year, primarily in low- and middle-income countries.
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