Newswise — Rotavirus is one of the most common causes of severe infectious diarrhea. Anyone with a child knows it can cause discomfort with accompanying cramps, dehydration and fever. While this may be an inconvenient hassle to parents in developed countries, it can mean death for children in developing countries.
Andrew Gewirtz, a professor at Georgia State’s Institute for Biomedical Sciences, along with a team of researchers, has found a new way to treat and cure rotavirus. Hundreds of thousands of children die from rotavirus each year in developing countries. This novel treatment can stop rotavirus in its tracks, and researchers hope to begin tests to determine using the method on a wide range of viruses.
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