Diarrheal diseases caused by drinking contaminated water kill 1.5 million children under 5 each year.
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Last year OneWorld Health teamed up with Novartis to research anti-diarrheal drugs for children.
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OneWorld Health is currently developing medicines for diarrheal diseases, malaria, visceral leishmaniasis and soil-transmitted helminthes (intestinal worms).
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The perplexing thing about diarrheal disease is that unlike many other global health epidemics, cheap diarrhea treatments exist.
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Some human patients have reported diarrheal symptoms in the current SARS outbreak.
Approximately 1, 000 children die of diarrheal sickness in India every day.
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The impact on health is huge, 2 million people die every year from diarrheal diseases, and most of them are children under the age of 5.
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Diarrheal illnesses from contaminated drinking water could be a major problem, as could respiratory problems among evacuated people kept in close conditions, such as in refugee camps.
Infectious diseases still take a grave toll in poor countries, especially childhood killers such as malaria, pneumonia and diarrheal diseases that are rarely a threat in rich countries.
But in animals, scientists have seen a coronavirus switch from being a diarrheal disease to a respiratory disease as the virus becomes lodged in a different tissue and genetically evolves.
The FDA last March asked pediatricians to stop administering GlaxoSmithKline's Rotarix, a vaccine that prevents rotavirus infection, a diarrheal illness that commonly affects infants and children and that can cause severe dehydration.
Both the World Health Organization and United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) expressed concern about reports of diarrheal diseases among children in southern Iraq being on the rise due to their drinking contaminated water.
The German child's symptoms were diarrheal, not respiratory.
During known outbreaks, a diarrheal illness is likely to be Norovirus and an influenza-like illness (defined as temperature of 100 or greater, cough or sore throat, and not other explanation) is likely to be flu.
About 2.5 billion people don't have access to modern toilets, and this lack of access encourages the spread of diarrheal diseases, which are blamed for the deaths of 1.5 million children each year, according to the World Health Organization.
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