Diarrhea

Pakistan takes a step towards ensuring safe drinking water. Here's why this is an important development

Dirty water causes a host of diseases such as dysentery, polio, typhoid, cholera and chronic diarrhoea to name a few.

Epidemic fears rise in Uttarakhand as 300 report fever, diarrhoea

The continuing bad weather has not only hindered rescue operations, but has also led to the outbreak of epidemic in the region becoming a real fear

Diarrhoea kills 1 lakh kids annually in India, rotavirus most common cause

The Global Enteric Multicentre Study (GEMS), involving 20,000 children from across Asia and Africa, is the largest study ever conducted on diarrhoeal diseases in developing countries.

Diarrhoea, pneumonia biggest killers of children in S Asia: UN

Concerted efforts to control diarrhea and pneumonia, the biggest killers of children under the age of five, could save the lives of up to 2 million of the world's poorest children each year, the United Nations Children's Fund said on Friday.