"What happens at about four to six months of age is that mothers begin to feed other foods and fluids to their infants ... and with the introduction of those foods we're also introducing pathogens because many of the utensils that these children are fed with, the feeding environment, the foods themselves are sitting in a contaminated bowl, [and] are full of fecal material. And so what happens is children consume them and maybe the nutrients are important to them but they are also becoming infected primarily with diarrheal diseases which can occur in some settings 10-12 times a year. It isn’t just diarrheal diseases, but also in Honduras and in the mountains of Honduras where we are you see a lot of respiratory infections that happen. Those are the two big ones in this setting.' -Peggy Bentley, Associate Dean for Global Health, UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health
