The World Health Organization says a vaccine which can prevent a diarrhoea and vomiting virus should be given to all children as a routine vaccination.
Rotavirus causes more than 500,000 diarrheal deaths and two million hospitalisations a year among children.
Over 85% of deaths occur in developing countries in Africa and Asia.
People in the remote areas of the south and south-eastern districts, inundated by tidal surges associated with cyclone Aila on May 25, are still facing acute crisis of drinking water, food and medicine amid an alarming spread of water borne diseases.
Keeping in view the recent flooding of the Indian market with antibiotic and probiotic combinations, the authors decided to
look at the prevalence of antibiotic associated diarrhea (AAD) and Clostridium difficile infection (CDI) in children and
reviewed evidence available for use of probiotics in the prevention of AAD.
Minister for Environment, Hamidullah Jan Afridi Thursday announced that there would be 100 per cent sanitation coverage by 2015, and stressed the need to devise a three pronged strategy to achieve this target.
No relief materials reached many remote areas in the south and south-west left battered by tidal surges whipped up by cyclone Aila even three days after the inundation in which thousands of people were marooned without food and drinking water.
The unofficial death toll rose to 178. The disaster management ministry on Thursday confirmed the death of 147 people.
Almost all the public toilets, run by the Dhaka City Corporation, are barely usable as they remain unhygienic due to lack of regular maintenance.
The DCC runs only 48 public toilets in the city, home to about 140 million people, according to official statistics.
May 27: Five children from Bholakpur and its surrounding slums are suffering from diarrohea. One case of jaundice, one heart and three kidney disorder cases have also been identified in the last two days.
