Abstract:

Viral diarrhea represents an important infections disease with heavy disease burden in China and even in the world. After the severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) pandemic, our country has achieved a lot in surveillance, prevention and control capacity of viral diarrhea, and set up multifarious monitoring systems in prevention and control of viral diarrhea, and with development of detection technology, the capacity of monitoring and prevention and control has been greatly improved. However, top-level design and long-term planning should be strengthened to respond to the growing demand for the prevention and control of viral diarrhea at home and abroad, especially to standardize disease names in diagnosis and surveillance, develop a variety of cost-effective vaccines and test reagents suitable for wider clinical use, use new technologies and novel theories to optimize monitoring systems and health promotion, clear up the information barriers, and boost the enthusiasm and initiative of the public being involved in prevention and control tasks.

Key words: Viral infection diarrhea, Rotavirus, Norovirus, Disease burden