Word: diarrheal
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...million children since it was first put to the test during a cholera outbreak among refugees on India's border with Bangladesh in 1971. But decades later, it remains grossly underused. The result, according to the World Health Organization (WHO): 3 million people a year still die from diarrheal complications, including 1.9 million children under 5, or 17% of the estimated 11 million deaths in that age group. These deaths are largely preventable and unnecessary. "We have the tools to really reduce deaths," says Olivier Fontaine, a diarrheal disease expert at the WHO in Geneva, Switzerland. "The cost of this...
...past year we learned that for the first time there's a vaccine that offers real, if partial, protection against malaria. No more death by mosquito bite is a goal that is within sight. Two new vaccines have been developed for rotavirus, the main cause of diarrheal disease. Today nearly a million people with HIV in poor countries are on lifesaving antiretroviral drugs--more than double the total just 18 months...
...almost a month after the tsunami hit, those feared epidemics have yet to strike. Waterborne diarrheal diseases have been staved off through good sanitation and hygiene, aggressive insecticide use has kept malaria and dengue fever to a minimum, and meticulous surveillance has contained contagious illnesses. The battle against disease isn't over, but the medical response to the tsunami is shaping up to be a surprising success story for the field of emergency public health. "The situation is still evolving, still dynamic, but I think we are well prepared," says Dr. Jai Narain, the WHO's Southeast Asia regional adviser...
...astonished by the story about the vaccine made from freeze-dried tomato juice that comes from fruit carrying a gene from a strain of the E. coli bacterium. This vaccine can fight off diarrheal diseases. I didn't realize such a thing was possible. I'm glad to know there are scientists trying to find better ways to combat disease in impoverished Third World countries. MARIA MAMAH Union Springs...
...your child falling prey to a massive, Turkey Day--scale illness are still minuscule. But that doesn't mean you can relax. "Full outbreaks are just the tip of the tip of an iceberg," says Paul Mead, of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's food-borne--and diarrheal-diseases branch. The vast majority of food-borne illnesses strike only a handful of children at a time, and symptoms are seldom reported to the school or a doctor, much less the CDC. But once infected, children are at much higher risk than healthy adults for developing complications...