Floods Bring Pneumonia, Diarrhea, Malaria, and Measles
Six million Pakistani children are at risk from infectious diseases spawned by massive monsoon rains. "Children are drinking, washing in, and going to the toilet in the same river water," reports the Herald Scotland. "If this sanitation crisis is not tackled now, in six months time, millions and millions of children will be suffering potentially deadly diarrhea and other diseases." If GAVI is able to marshal the required funding, children in over 40 countries can count on access to a vaccine against rotavirus diarrhea by 2015. Watch A Common Disease, A Promising Solution from PATH. Read more.
The 'Miracle Things' We Take for Granted
It's National Immunization Awareness Month and worth noting that protecting children, and adults, from the death and disability caused by infectious diseases has seldom brought celebrity. Case in point: Maurice Hilleman, who first made nine of 14 vaccines doctors typically administer in wealthy countries like the U.S. Read more.