Oral cholera vaccines in mass immunization campaigns

Overview

About 1.8–2.8 million people die of diarrhoea every year, representing 3.7% of the 56 million deaths recorded globally. For children under the age of 5, the percentage of deaths due to diarrhoea reaches 15–19%. In low- and middle-income countries, diarrhoea is the second killer among communicable diseases after lower respiratory infections, the seventh when considering all causes of death. DALY calculation shows that diarrhoea ranks sixth among the causes of burden of disease, third among communicable diseases.