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Getting a Rotavirus in Check

Success against a disease that hit Nicaragua's children hard.

Rotavirus kills around 800,000 children per year worldwide. Its impact hit Nicaraguan children hard. But in 2006, a vaccine came to the villages. And the results are remarkable.

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