Deaths Rise from
Diarrhea in El Salvador
SAN SALVADOR - Sanitarian authorities of El
Salvador informed that six children under
one year died in 2010 due to diarrheal
diseases.
The increase of the deaths for that cause
plus the dengue fever outbreak in that
country warns doctors of Benjamin Bloom
child hospital. Alvaro Delgado, director of
that hospital, reported 4 deaths in that
center.
840 people have been reported with that
affection so far and the majority has been
children under one year.
Eduardo Suarez, infectious diseases
specialist and member of a team who assesses
the Ministry of Health and Social Welfare,
assures that whatâ�Ös essential in this
moment is to avoid gastrointestinal
affections and to stop the spread of dengue
fever.
According to Suarez the increase of
diarrheical diseases in children is related
to the lack of immunization in 50.000
children against rotavirus because of the
vaccine insufficiency in the first semester
of 2009.
Rotavirus is a disease which causes vomits
and diarrheas in children.
He also said that 1.737 cases of dengue
fever have been detected in the country in
the current year, 41 of them are hemorrhagic
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