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Article: Low infant mortality rate.(Cuba)(Brief Article)
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- Caribbean Update
- Article date:
- February 1, 2005
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Cuba's infant mortality rate has fallen to less than six deaths per thousand babies born, the lowest in Latin America, according to government figures, reports AFP (Jan. 5, 2005). The figure of 5.8 deaths per thousand contrasts with the 37.3 per thousand infant deaths when Cuban leader Fidel Castro came to power in 1959, official newspaper Granma reported. In the last 12 months, 127,062 births were registered on the island. Some 735 infants died largely due to perinatal infection and ...
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