By the spring of 1999, however, several reports of intussusception following RotaShield vaccine administration had been made to the Vaccine Adverse Events Reporting System (VAERS) and on July 16, 1999, the CDC announced that it was suspending its recommendation of RotaShield due to the increasing number of reported intussusception cases. Later that year, at the CDC’s October ACIP meeting, the committee voted to withdraw its recommendation in light of evidence which found that intussusception occurred in one out of every 5,000 infants who received the vaccine.
