Rotavirus

Surveillance planned in Asia for devastating diarrheal disease in children

Published in Vaccine Weekly, June 16th, 2004

Fourteen Asian countries are taking action to better assess the impact of rotavirus, a disease that kills an estimated 500,000 children worldwide every year. An investment of nearly $1 million will fund surveillance in 41 hospitals, as well as a variety of outpatient clinics and two community-level projects.

The massive effort is in response to new data that severe rotavirus accounts for 40-60% of hospitalizations for diarrhea among young children in Asia - double previous estimates.

"The scope and magnitude of this effort against rotavirus is unprecedented," said John Wecker, PhD, director of the Rotavirus Vaccine Program. "The infant death toll...

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