And so, this is clearly a severe disease that we're taking very carefully for that reason, and the proportion of these, despite treatment, do unfortunately die," said Dr. Umesh Parashar, chief of ...

Rotavirus prompts more than 400,000 physician office visits, more than 200,000 emergency room visits, and an estimated 55,000 to 70,000 hospitalizations each year, says Parashar.

"It's something that's been on our radar as something that's plausible," said Umesh Parashar, lead medical epidemiologist for the SARS task force of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention ...

Umesh Parashar, MD, chief of the CDC’s Viral Gastroenteritis Branch, said many experienced clinicians who have managed patients have spoken up. “Many of them do say they are seeing something ...

Recent genetic analysis has turned up no evidence that a single new mutant version of the virus is to blame, said Dr. Umesh Parashar, chief of the CDC group focused on viral gut diseases.

In a typical year, about 1,500 to 2,000 children are hospitalized with acute hepatitis across the country, Parashar said on the Friday call.

"Not finding it in the liver, to date, is something that obviously is a bit perplexing," said Umesh Parashar, chief of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's viral gastroenteritis branch ...

Rotavirus prompts more than 400,000 physician office visits, more than 200,000 emergency room visits, and an estimated 55,000 to 70,000 hospitalizations each year, says Parashar.