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Soiled saris: a vector of disease transmission? |
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| Authors: | B F Stanton J D Clemens J D Clements |
| Affiliation: | 1. Department of Neurosurgery, Affiliated Hospital of Qingdao University, Qingdao, China;2. School of Clinical Medicine, Guizhou Medical University, Guiyang, China;3. School of Basic Medicine, Guizhou Medical University, Guiyang, China;4. Department of Oncology, Changle County People''s Hospital, Weifang, China;1. Rwanda Institute for Conservation Agriculture, Gashora, Bugesera, Rwanda;2. Department of Agricultural Economics and Agribusiness, Sokoine University of Agriculture, P.O. Box 67104, Morogoro, Tanzania;3. International Institute for Tropical Agriculture (IITA), P.O. Box 34444, Dar es salaam, Tanzania |
| Abstract: | We examined the relationship between uses of the sari that are potential health hazards and episodes of diarrhoea in children younger than 6 years in 247 families living in 51 slums in Dhaka, Bangladesh. These misuses appeared to be common (median of three per observation period) and were largely unrecognized by the women as possible sources of disease transmission. There appeared to be a positive correlation between the number of misuses of the sari and episodes of childhood diarrhoea. |
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