Volume 9, Number 5, May 2003

Global Illness and Deaths Caused by Rotavirus Disease in Children

Umesh D. Parashar,* Erik G. Hummelman,*Joseph S. Bresee,* Mark A. Miller,† and Roger I. Glass*
*Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, USA; and †Fogarty International Center, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, USA

Figure 2. Estimated global distribution of 440,000 annual deaths in children caused by rotavirus diarrhea.

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