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A key to ETEC infection may be in your blood

If you have blood type A, you may be more at risk of diarrhea from enterotoxigenic E. coli (ETEC). This finding was just published in a human challenge model study in the Journal of Clinical Investigation—and it has potentially widespread implicati...
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Five people are posing around a colorful toilet art piece. They are smiling and standing in front of flowy gray curtains under bright lighting. The word "DEFEATDD" is visible on the toilet. The group appears to be happy, vibrant, and supportive of a cause.
May 04, 2018

Thanks for taking the plunge!

Our event partner, NJI Media, filled the technicolor toilet-shaped void in our hearts that we didn’t know we had.   Silliness and substance: these are our twin priorities at DefeatDD. Breaking the poo taboo requires some creative resourcefulness...
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Apr 12, 2018

Throwing it back: Before we had rotavirus vaccines

Ruth Bishop changed the game when she discovered rotavirus in 1973.
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All Available Tools: Integrating Vaccines into Zambia’s Cholera Response

These crowds are a testament to the Government of Zambia's commitment to social mobilization to raise awareness about the country's oral cholera vaccine campaign. Photo credit: CIDRZ.  
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Bridging the gap between health and WASH sectors

What would you say to a donor considering integrated approaches? We asked the experts.
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A circular glass award stands on a surface, featuring the text "FROM RESEARCH TO REALITY, Celebrating the partners of ROTAVAC®, MARCH 12, 2018" with icons of a test tube and a vaccine syringe flanked by illustrative hands.

Celebrating ROTAVAC: a rotavirus vaccine success story for India and the world

The ROTAVAC® story
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A caregiver dressed in a bright, patterned outfit holds a young child on their lap in a hospital room. The child is being fed or given medicine by a healthcare professional. The room has a bed and medical equipment in the background.
Feb 12, 2018

Diarrhea, the time thief

A child in Sudan receives ORS during a hospital stay for severe diarrhea. PATH/Doune Porter.   Global deaths from diarrhea are falling, rapidly. This is encouraging news—it means that fewer parents are living with the tragedy of a child lost to ...
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A healthcare worker in a blue shirt assists a child lying on a table while two adults and a child observe. Another child is carried on the back of an adult. The setting is a clinic with a brick wall and chalkboard in the background.
Feb 07, 2018

If childhood stunting is a three-legged stool, poor gut health is one leg

Dr. Mark Manary, one of the world’s foremost experts in childhood malnutrition, screens children in Chikweo, Malawi. Photo: Carol Lin.  
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icddr,b launches a preemptive strike against cholera with vaccines

The emergency The Rohingyas are a predominantly Muslim ethnic group who, for centuries, resided in the Buddhist-dominant Rakhine State of Myanmar. However, they are not considered by Myanmar as one of their 135 official ethnic groups and have been d...
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Nov 10, 2017

Killing two bugs with one strategy

If pneumonia and diarrhea—the two biggest infectious killers of children worldwide—were personified as serial killers, I imagine that they would look very different. Pneumonia might be tall and spindly, with long, wispy fingers. Diarrhea, on the ...
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