[news] Overcrowding Leads to Lung Infections in Young Inuit Children

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Overcrowding and bad ventilation appear to be to blame for the high number of lung infections in young Inuit children, finds a new study in the Canadian Medical Association Journal...Inuit infants in the Baffin region of Nunavut have the highest reported rate of hospital admission in the world, because of severe...lung infections, with annualized rates of up to 306 per 1000 infants.

  


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