In The Lancet Infectious Diseases, Jacqueline Tate and colleagues assess more than 40 reports published between 2008 and 2011 and recent data from WHO-coordinated Global Surveillance Networks, which established the rate of rotavirus-associated acute gastroenteritis in children younger than 5 years who were admitted to hospital in various parts of the world. From these rates and the actual numbers of childhood deaths in different countries related to all causes of diarrhoea, Tate and colleagues obtained estimates of deaths associated with rotavirus disease.
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