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	Children are referenced at least 28 times in this article. I am not a child, nor do I have any. I am trying to determine whether or not this virus has caused the gastroenteritis I've suffered for the past week, and all I see is a single confusing blurb about the "adult version." I suggest a cleanup for this article either making it less child-centric, or a clarification pointing out that this virus is so uncommon in adults that adults are barely worth discussing! <small>—Preceding ] comment added by ] (]) 00:05, 1 May 2008 (UTC)</small><!-- Template:UnsignedIP --> <!--Autosigned by SineBot-->		Children are referenced at least 28 times in this article. I am not a child, nor do I have any. I am trying to determine whether or not this virus has caused the gastroenteritis I've suffered for the past week, and all I see is a single confusing blurb about the "adult version." I suggest a cleanup for this article either making it less child-centric, or a clarification pointing out that this virus is so uncommon in adults that adults are barely worth discussing! <small>—Preceding ] comment added by ] (]) 00:05, 1 May 2008 (UTC)</small><!-- Template:UnsignedIP --> <!--Autosigned by SineBot-->
	:The reason children are mentioned 28 times is that viral infections that travel the fecal-oral route are far more common in young children who are prone to the sort of habits that carry fecal contamination to their mouth than adults are, and because it is an important cause of childhood malnutrition, disease, and death. General encyclopedia articles are not written in any way to assist in self-diagnosis of diseases, so no rewrite of this article will help with what you seek. --] (]) 02:37, 1 May 2008 (UTC)		:The reason children are mentioned 28 times is that viral infections that travel the fecal-oral route are far more common in young children who are prone to the sort of habits that carry fecal contamination to their mouth than adults are, and because it is an important cause of childhood malnutrition, disease, and death. General encyclopedia articles are not written in any way to assist in self-diagnosis of diseases, so no rewrite of this article will help with what you seek. --] (]) 02:37, 1 May 2008 (UTC)
	::The difference between children and adults is not their hand washing habits, but the fact that adults are largely immune, having been already thoroughly infected when they were children~~. So, to answer ]: your gastroenteritis probably is not rotavirus~~. The article does try to make this point...I will look at it again. --] (]) 19:44, 12 June 2008 (UTC)		::The difference between children and adults is not their hand washing habits, but the fact that adults are largely immune, having been already thoroughly infected when they were children. The article does try to make this point...I will look at it again. --] (]) 19:44, 12 June 2008 (UTC)

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Cross Immunity

Does immunity to one strain of the virus result in partial immunity to the others? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 205.203.58.1 (talk) 13:05, 7 April 2008 (UTC)

Yes.--GrahamColm 15:02, 7 April 2008 (UTC)

It depends at great deal on how many generations the viruses are apart. Some strains could be completly diffrent from each other by now.Skeletor 0 (talk) 18:04, 7 April 2008 (UTC)

For an RNA virus, rotaviruses are remarkably stable genetically. The mutation rate is low and the same serotypes have been circulating in humans and other animals for decades. If rotaviruses were highly mutable, (like HIV), control of rotavirus disease by vaccination would not be possible. (See Rotavirus Vaccine Program). GrahamColm 15:22, 11 April 2008 (UTC)

That is quite interesting. I didn't think that any RNA viruses were that stable. Of course I don't know as much about this as you so why am I talking anyway?Skeletor 0 (talk) 17:39, 11 April 2008 (UTC)

Talk away, this is the Talk page. Poliovirus is a stable RNA virus, hence the vaccine being so effective, as is Hepatitis A virus, Rubella virus, Measles and Mumps. It is the "newer" RNA viruses such as HIV that are highly mutable and thus difficult to develop vaccines against. GrahamColm 18:15, 11 April 2008 (UTC)

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Children are referenced at least 28 times in this article. I am not a child, nor do I have any. I am trying to determine whether or not this virus has caused the gastroenteritis I've suffered for the past week, and all I see is a single confusing blurb about the "adult version." I suggest a cleanup for this article either making it less child-centric, or a clarification pointing out that this virus is so uncommon in adults that adults are barely worth discussing! —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.246.221.99 (talk) 00:05, 1 May 2008 (UTC)

The reason children are mentioned 28 times is that viral infections that travel the fecal-oral route are far more common in young children who are prone to the sort of habits that carry fecal contamination to their mouth than adults are, and because it is an important cause of childhood malnutrition, disease, and death. General encyclopedia articles are not written in any way to assist in self-diagnosis of diseases, so no rewrite of this article will help with what you seek. --Blechnic (talk) 02:37, 1 May 2008 (UTC)

The difference between children and adults is not their hand washing habits, but the fact that adults are largely immune, having been already thoroughly infected when they were children. The article does try to make this point...I will look at it again. --Una Smith (talk) 19:44, 12 June 2008 (UTC)

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