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Importance of Vaccination Against Diarrhea & Rotavirus

April 28, 2009

A Forum on the impact of rotavirus and infectious diarrhea on families and caregivers was held last Thursday, April 23, 2009 from 10:30 am – 1:00 pm at First Place Restaurant in Hyatt Hotel, Manila. I was fortunate enough to have attended the event together with my brother Mark, his wife Shannon and my baby nephew Dominic Mark (or DM for short).

GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) unveiled the findings of the latest study assessing the burden on Filipino caregivers in terms of quality of life and costs of having a child hospitalized for infectious diarrhea caused by rotavirus. 

Let me give you some background information about this killer virus among children. 


Rotavirus infection kills more than 600,000 people every year in the world today.  Death due to rotavirus infection is usually caused by dehydration due to severe vomiting and diarrhea. 

Acute diarrhea remains one of the five leading causes of sickness and deaths among children in the Philippines. Yet the burden of diarrhea falls not only on the infant but also on the caregiver, whose quality of life suffers in many ways.

 

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