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Friday, May 10, 2013

Fact of the Day

The United States has the highest rate of first-day deaths in babies than any other industrialized nation, according to a report released this week by the humanitarian group Save the Children.


Throughout the world, the first day of life is the most hazardous time for a baby; just over one million children die each year within 24 hours of being born. Only 1 percent of the world's newborn deaths occur in industrialized countries.
Each year, nearly 11,300 babies die on the day they were born in the United States, making American babies twice as likely to die in their first 24 hours as European Union babies. Babies born to the poorest mothers are 40 percent more likely to die than babies born to wealthy mothers

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