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Infant diarrhoea – the WHO recommends vaccination
[mis à jour le 10 July 2009 à 14h25]
The World Health Organisation (WHO) is on the offensive against rotaviruses.
Every year these kill more than 500,000 children under the age of 5 as a result of diarrhoea and lead to 2 million hospitalisations. The WHO recommends that all countries include vaccination against these viruses as part of their national immunisation programmes.
The WHO believes that this new policy should help to provide access to antirotavirus vaccines in the world’s poorest countries, particularly in Africa and Asia, which are the continents where over 85% of these deaths occur.
This is a decisive stage in ensuring that those children whose need is greatest have access to vaccines against the most widespread cause of fatal diarrhoea, the WHO states
The WHO’s Strategic Advisory Group of Experts is also reassuring regarding the harmlessness and effectiveness of the two available vaccines: GlaxoSmithKline’s Rotarix and Sanofi Pasteur MSD’s RotaTeq.
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