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Association of Animal Ownership and Short-Term Rainfall Events with under-5 Diarrhea Prevalence in sub-Saharan Africa

2025-12-27 public and global health Title + abstract only
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According to the 2021 Global Burden of Diseases Study, diarrhea contributed to an estimated 340,429 deaths among children younger than five years old and an estimated 245,966 deaths in sub-Saharan Africa specifically. Some efforts to reduce the burden of diarrhea in Africa have focused on animal fecal contamination, particularly during extreme precipitation events (EPEs). A focus has been the concentration-dilution hypothesis, which is centered on EPEs immediately following dry periods. The sou...

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