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New Study Points To Invisible Killer Of Infants

2020-10-29 15:42:46.032785+00 by Dan Lyke 0 comments

New Study Points To Invisible Killer Of Infants

Now an international team of researchers have a better understanding of that answer. Air pollution, both inside and outside the home, contributed to the deaths of about 500,000 newborns in 2019, the team reports in the State of Global Air 2020.

"The number is just staggering," says epidemiologist Rakesh Ghosh at the University of California, San Francisco, who led the study. Each year about 2.42 million infants die within the first 27 days of life. The new study suggests air pollutions contribute to about 20% of those deaths

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