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01-24-2008, 02:10 PM
Clinics around Santo Domingo are reporting that 80% of patients seen by doctors in the last few weeks have been suffering from diarrhea, vomiting and other gastrointestinal problems. Hoy writes that out of 400 emergency cases treated by the Robert Reid Cabral Children's Hospital, 94 were diarrhea related, and that one of every four children seen at the hospital has been treated for diarrhea. Doctors are warning of an outbreak of the rotavirus that causes these symptoms in children. According to a report by UNICEF, quoted in Hoy, diarrhea is the third leading cause of death among children.
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