| suspension of rotavirus vaccine after reports of intussusception--united states, 1999. | on july 16, 1999, cdc recommended that health-care providers suspend use of the licensed rhesus-human rotavirus reassortant-tetravalent vaccine (rrv-tv) (rotashield, wyeth laboratories, inc., marietta, pennsylvania) in response to 15 cases of intussusception (i.e., a bowel obstruction in which one segment of bowel becomes enfolded within another segment) among infants who received rrv-tv. the vaccine adverse event reporting system (vaers) monitored for adverse events following licensure of rrv-t ... | 2004 | 15343145 |