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...third of that expected for her age, and she now seems to be little more than a distended stomach, bulging head and collection of scrawny limbs. According to the chart at the foot of her bed, she may also have pneumonia and sepsis. But at the root of her problem is chronic diarrhea, a daily killer of 5,000 young children in the developing world and the cause of one-third of child deaths in Bangladesh. Her 15-year-old mother, Jharana, had never heard of diarrhea before she was advised to take Sohag to ICDDR's hospital. There...
...concerts to fight diarrhea. Of 29 child-health specialists at major international development agencies surveyed by the Rotavirus Vaccine Program - a charity based in Seattle, Washington - 40% named aids, tuberculosis and malaria as the three greatest childhood killers. In reality, the top three are pneumonia, diarrhea and malaria. "This problem isn't getting the attention it deserves," says Wandee Varavithya, a doctor who has treated diarrheal diseases for nearly 40 years in Thailand. That needs to change. Most cases of diarrhea can be traced to food or water tainted by 100 or so intestinal bugs, most commonly rotavirus, E. coli...
...recover quickly because they are treated aggressively.) The first vaccine approved for prevention of rotavirus, Wyeth's Rotashield, was taken off the market in 1999 after several children who received it developed a rare but serious complication in which the bowel folds in on itself. Preliminary studies suggest this problem has been overcome by Merck's RotaTeq, which was approved by regulators in Europe and the U.S. earlier this year, and GlaxoSmith-Kline's Rotarix, approved in Europe in February. Like other vaccines, they work by provoking the development of antibodies that protect against future infection. Both are given orally...
...A380 has about 500 km of electrical cables that need to be configured individually for different customers (so the explanation went), and that was proving far more complex than anticipated. Last week, the story changed. Airbus postponed the A380's launch once again, but acknowledged that the company's problems are far greater than mere technical snafus. The two-year delay to the A380 will reduce profits by an estimated €4.8 billion over the next three years and cut free cash flow by €6.3 billion. Airbus and its parent company, EADS, do indeed have a wiring problem...
...They have skinny bones." KARL LAGERFELD, German fashion designer, shrugging off concerns about too skinny models and arguing that most models are naturally thin. He said the rise of obesity in many countries, including France, is a more serious problem...