Reducing deaths from diarrhoea through oral rehydration therapy

In 1980, diarrhoea was the leading cause of child mortality, accounting for 4.6 million deaths annually. Efforts to control diarrhoea over the past decade have been based on multiple, potentially powerful interventions implemented more or less simultaneously. Oral rehydration therapy (ORT) was intro...

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Published in:	Bulletin of the World Health Organization
Main Authors:	Cesar G. Victora, Jennifer Bryce, Olivier Fontaine, Roeland Monasch
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	The World Health Organization 2000-01-01
Subjects:	fluid therapy rehydration solutions infant mortality diarrhea Brazil Egypt Mexico Philippines
Online Access:	http://www.scielosp.org/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0042-96862000001000010&lng=en&tlng=en

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