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Oral rehydration therapy and its effect on child mortality in Egypt
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 27 September 2011
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A major Egyptian national programme for the control of diarrhoeal disease was launched in February 1984, with the aim of reducing the dehydration-specific mortality resulting from acute diarrhoea (52% of all infant deaths in 1979) and thus to reduce overall infant and childhood mortality.
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