Wednesday, September 5, 2007

1.5 Million Children Could Be Saved If Diarrhea Treatments Followed

ScienceDaily: 1.5 Million Children Could Be Saved If Diarrhea Treatments Followed: "Despite global efforts to control it, diarrhoea is still one of the most common reasons for the high child mortality rates in many low and middle-income countries. This according to a doctoral thesis, soon to be presented at the Swedish medical university Karolinska Institutet. One fifth of all the deaths amongst children under the age of five that are reported every year are caused by serious diarrhoea [...]"

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