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Diarrhoeal diseases constitute a very important threat to child life and health in Pakistan. Some health statistics of the country relevant to the problem are given in Table 1.
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Khan, S.R. (1985). Diarrhoeal diseases in Pakistani children. In: Eeckels, R.E., Ransome-Kuti, O., Kroonenberg, C.C. (eds) Child Health in the Tropics. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-5012-2_10
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