Jahangir Hossain

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First vaccine against childhood E. coli diarrhea advances toward global use

Principal investigator at MRC Gambia

Enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli, or ETEC, causes roughly 220 million episodes of diarrhea annually and kills tens of thousands of children under five—mostly in low-income countries where clean water remains scarce. No vaccine against it has ever been licensed.

Updated May 30