Bacterial Infections — A Major Cause of Death among Children in Africa

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For the past 25 years, since the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) has been publishing estimates of mortality among children worldwide, the international medical community has been aware of the appalling burden of early deaths among African children. Early studies indicated that, in the absence of any effective medical care, children born in a rural African village had a probability of death before the age of five years of 30 to 50 percent.1 From the outset, it was understood that many of these deaths result from the combined effect of poverty and malnutrition.2 Since 1980, mortality rates have fallen but . . .

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