Saw this headline on Yahoo tonight:
"US among worst in world for infant death"
What is wrong with us?! We have no excuse for this. We don't have a guerrilla war going on, we don't have a lack of doctors or access to medicine.
"The United States ranks near the bottom for infant survival rates among modernized nations. A Save the Children report last year placed the United States ahead of only Latvia, and tied with Hungary, Malta, Poland and Slovakia."
Good news, though. We're still ahead of places with famine and total abject poverty.
"A 2005 World Health Organization report found infant mortality rates as high as 144 per 1,000 births — more than 20 times the U.S. rate — in Liberia."
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