Rotavirus vaccination reduced diarrhea-associated deaths due to rotavirus infection in infants and young children in Africa, according to the results of two recently published studies.

In a study published in JAMA Pediatrics, Christopher Troeger, MPH, of the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation in Seattle, Washington, and colleagues expanded upon the Global Burden of Disease Study 2016, a cross-sectional study that measured rotavirus as one of 13 diarrheal etiological agents to estimate disease burden for each age, sex and geographic location from 1990 to 2016.