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Contaminated food is a major cause of diarrhea, substantially contributing to malnutrition and killing about 2.2 million people each year, most of them children.

You've probably been asked to care about things like HIV/AIDS or T.B. or measles, but diarrhea kills more children than all those three things put together. It's a very potent weapon of mass destruction.

It is still just unbelievable to us that diarrhea is one of the leading causes of child deaths in the world.

I find the fact that more than 750,000 children still die every year around the world because of severe dehydration due to diarrhea unacceptable.

We have to do whatever we can to ensure that no child dies of diarrhea.

Every three seconds in the developing world, a child dies needlessly due to lack of basic health care and other things we all take for granted.

Every year 3.1 million Indian children die before the age of 5, mostly from diseases of poverty like diarrhea.

Chronic malnutrition, or the lack of proper nutrition over time directly contributes to three times as many child deaths as food scarcity. Yet surprisingly, you don't really hear about this hidden crisis through the morning news, Twitter or headlines of major newspapers.

Of those who die from avoidable, poverty-related causes, nearly 10 million, according to UNICEF, are children under five. They die from diseases such as measles, diarrhoea, and malaria that are easy and inexpensive to treat or prevent.

Disasters such as earthquakes, tsunamis, volcanoes, floods, oil spills and radioactive fallout cause massive death of people, pigs, bats and birds. These disasters also impact the immune health of survivors. All harbor viruses.