WHO Backs Anti-Diarrhoea Vaccine
June 8th, 2009Clean water? No. Vaccines? Yes.
What’s that? The vaccine is too costly? Just sell more vaccine bonds.
Via: BBC:
The World Health Organization says a vaccine which can prevent a diarrhoea and vomiting virus should be given to all children as a routine vaccination.
Rotavirus causes more than 500,000 diarrhoeal deaths and two million hospitalisations a year among children.
Over 85% of deaths occur in developing countries in Africa and Asia.
International experts welcomed the WHO’s recommendations, based on new research, but UK scientists have said the vaccine is too costly.
Research Credit: efs
