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A 1985 National Research Council report entitled Injury in America [2] recommended that United States Congress establish a new program at the CDC to address the problem of injury. Initially the program was supported with funds from the United States Department of Transportation. In 1990 Congress passed the Injury Control Act which authorized ...
Two children in the U.S. and 15 in the U.K. have died from strep A infection, a bacteria that normally causes mild disease but can be extremely dangerous.
Based on the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's (CDC) WISQARS database for the latest year of data (2010), serious injury kills nearly 10,000 children in America each year. [ 18 ] Pediatric trauma accounted for 59.5% of all mortality for children under 18 in 2004.
Fatality Narratives are one-page descriptions of recent fatal incidents. FACE Fatal Facts are bulletins that have been developed to address specific workplace hazards. Work-related injuries in the United States claim the lives of more than 5,000 individuals annually. [4] Men are most frequently on-the-job fatality victims.
Overall, fatal poisonings among children have decreased since the 1970 passage of the Poison Prevention Packaging Act, which requires child-resistant packaging on potentially hazardous substances ...
The CDC data included 158 children who died who were eligible for a vaccine and whose vaccination status was known. Out of those, 131 children, or 83%, were not fully vaccinated.
According to Salon, there was an evident dip in critical year 2003 (when the lead in the drinking water peaked), in the data present in the CDC files, there were test results for 15,755 children in 2002, only 9,765 children in 2003, and 18,038 children in 2004, At the time, Mary Jean Brown had questioned the dip, and had gotten the answer that ...
A 12-year-old Texas girl died Monday after her mother and stepfather failed to seek medical attention for four days following life-threatening injuries, instead attempting to nurse her back to ...