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You are watching Diarrhoea Season 1 Episode 3

Virtually every child in the world, rich or poor, is infected early in life by a vicious bug called rotavirus. The lucky ones show no symptoms – they simply become immune. Others develop severe diarrhoea. Given the best medicine, the victims recover. But in developing countries, where even simple rehydration therapy may be hard to come by, rotavirus is lethal; killing around 400,000 children every year, most of them in India and Africa. 

• On site 09 September 2008
• Air date 28 June 2004
• Produced for BBC World

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Keywords

• Rotavirus,
• Hygiene,
• UNICEF,
• vaccine,
• Health,
• NTD