A vaccine is perhaps even more urgently needed, however, in developing countries where children are more likely to die with the disease, some 600,000 each year. CDC officials are continuing to investigate and the vaccine will stay off the market until more is known. However, according to Albert Kapikian, National Institute for Allergy and Infectious Diseases, who was involved in developing the vaccine, health officials in some developing countries may decide that taking the risk of contacting this rare complication may be worth preventing the far higher risk of death from the disease. In the meantime, mothers are encouraged to replace fluid lost in liquid stools with oral rehydration solution, available at their pharmacies as premixed Pedialyte or CeraLyte packettes to mix with water. Dehydration from diarrhea is a real threat and is especially serious in infants.
Winter is the season when it is most common.
Backed and fully participated in by actor Donald Quaid, the IHC is based in Lousiana, and brings seriously ill children to the United States for major surgeries. The Board of Trustees of CHF held their second meeting of 2000 on November 9th. During the meeting, Mr. Joel Underwood was introduced to the board members as the new part-time fundraiser for the Centre Fund, the endowment for the Centre for Health and Population, which CHF supports. He was voted an emeritus member and his job of Treasurer was given to Dr. Bradley Sack who will add that responsibility to his position as secretary. That brings to a total of eighteen the number that have been granted since the program began in 1996.