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To: Lazarus_Long who wrote (66656)	11/9/2004 11:58:47 AM
From: Karen Lawrence	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 89467

Actually, we are 36, and the stats are that improvements have evaporated, we're going down more, something you're undoubtedly proud of Lazlongnshort: Babies born in the United States are twice as likely to die as those of Sweden, Iceland, Japan, Spain or even the Czech Republic. And, within this country, some babies -- depending on their race and where they live -- start out with heavy odds against them. Almost 20 years after the United States set a goal of reducing infant mortality, the rate of deaths among children in their first year of life is still high. Advances in medicine and technology have lowered the overall infant mortality rate, from 10.6 deaths per thousand births in 1986 to 7 in 2002 according to the Centers for Disease Control, but failed to raise the statistical survival chances of America's infants beyond those of babies in many of the world's developing nations. The latest infant mortality rankings from the World Health Organization show the United States 36th among 196 nations. sfgate.com