Rotavirus

Mexico health minister calls rotavirus "major public health priority"

Published in Medical Letter on the CDC and FDA, August 1st, 2004

Rotavirus "is a major, major public health priority" for Mexico and for the Americas, Mexican Health Minister Dr. Julio Frenk said at the opening of a global symposium on rotavirus, where health experts spent three days discussing the latest information about the deadly disease.

Frenk told some 400 people attending the meeting that deaths from diarrheal disease "have dropped dramatically" in Mexico, since strong measures were taken to control it after the cholera epidemic that struck the Americas in 1991.

"Vaccines can be a very cost-effective intervention and Mexico is a world leader in immunizing children, with 98% coverage of children under 5...

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