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...officials like Fontaine hope that zinc becomes so standard that it will be "like having Band-Aids at home." A second medical breakthrough should also help. At least one-third of all diarrhea deaths among young children are caused by the rotavirus, which infects the cells lining the small intestine and causes gastroenteritis. In June the WHO approved the first rotavirus vaccine for global use. The vaccine, which in trials in Latin America, Europe and the U.S. cut rotavirus infections 85%, could someday be part of routine vaccination programs for children, along with those for polio, measles and other diseases...
...officials such as Fontaine hope that zinc becomes so standard that it will be "like having Band-Aids at home." A second medical breakthrough should also help. At least one-third of all diarrhea deaths among young children are caused by the rotavirus, which infects the cells lining the small intestine and causes gastroenteritis. In June, the WHO approved the first rotavirus vaccine for global use. The vaccine, which in trials in Latin America, Europe and the U.S. cut rotavirus infections by 85%, could someday be part of routine vaccination programs for children, along with those for polio, measles...
...aids, tuberculosis and malaria - attract far more interest and money from big donors and governments, based partly on the mistaken belief that they kill the most children. Celebrities don't host concerts to fight diarrhea. Of 29 child-health specialists at major international development agencies surveyed by the Rotavirus Vaccine Program - a charity based in Seattle, Washington - 40% named aids, tuberculosis and malaria as the three greatest childhood killers. In reality, the top three are pneumonia, diarrhea and malaria. "This problem isn't getting the attention it deserves," says Wandee Varavithya, a doctor who has treated diarrheal diseases for nearly...
...Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and support from the U.S. Agency for International Development, an ICDDR program now aims to provide zinc tablets to every child under 5 in Bangladesh. Vaccines also hold promise for preventing some types of diarrhea. The most common cause of diarrhea in children is rotavirus, which leads to severe, watery diarrhea. Researchers believe it infects almost every child in the world by age 5 and kills 600,000 of them a year in poor countries. (Children who contract the virus in rich countries, by contrast, usually recover quickly because they are treated aggressively.) The first...
...million deaths in children under 5 every year due to diarrheal diseases. According to WHO, about two-thirds of these (1.3 million) occur in the 15 countries in Asia and Africa. Causes About 100 intestinal bugs can trigger diarrhea. In developing countries, as in the rest of the world, rotavirus and E. coli are the most common causes of hospitalization due to diarrhea in children...