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"The world has become a much safer place to be a young child in the last 50
years. Since 1974, infant mortality worldwide has plummeted. That year, one in
10 newborns died before reaching their first birthday. By 2021, that rate had
fallen by over two-thirds.
A lot of factors drove this change: lower poverty and better nutrition, cleaner
air and water, and readily available antibiotics and other treatments. But one
of the biggest contributors, a new study from the World Health Organization
(WHO) concludes, was vaccines.
Vaccines alone, the researchers find, accounted for 40 percent of the decline
in infant mortality. The paper — authored by a team of researchers led by WHO
epidemiologist and vaccine expert Naor Bar-Zeev — estimates that in the 50
years since 1974, vaccines prevented 154 million deaths.
Of that 154 million, 146 million lives saved were among children under 5,
including 101 million infants. Because the averted deaths were so concentrated
among young people, who on average would go on to live for 66 years, vaccines
gave their beneficiaries an astounding 9 billion additional years of life."
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Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
