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India tops in childhood flu-linked pneumonia deaths
Place: New Delhi | Agency: IANS
Place: New Delhi | Agency: IANS
About one in every four infants who die from flu-related pneumonia is an Indian, says new research by the University of Edinburgh published Friday.
The study was led by the varsity and involved 47 researchers from 14 countries. Data from high-income and developing countries was reviewed.
India is the world leader for pneumonia mortality in under-five children contributing about a fourth of the global pneumonia deaths, said the study's leader Harish Nair of the varsity's Centre for Population Health Sciences and the Public Health Foundation of India.
"We think that until the widespread implementation of an effective influenza vaccine is achievable, reliable provision of antibiotics and oxygen therapy will substantially reduce mortality associated with flu," he added.
The estimates were based on influenza and pneumonia data from Ballabgarh in north Indian state of Haryana.
According to the study, annually, more than 3.7 lakh Indian children under the age of five die as a result of pneumonia and as many as seven percent of those die after contracting flu.
90 million cases of seasonal flu occur in under-five children each year globally and 20 million of these are flu-related pneumonia resulting in 1 million hospital admissions, said the study.
Although about 6,000 flu-related pneumonia deaths occur in hospitals, as many as three times this number could be occurring at home, researchers estimate.
The data used in the study suggests that the extent of the flu epidemic and associated pneumonia deaths could vary widely each year - within India and the rest of the world.
With vaccines being available for the common bacterial causes of childhood pneumonia, the bacterial pneumonia rates have started to decline, the study says.
India Among 15 Nations Tops in Child Pneumonia Deaths: IVAC Study
- Tue, Nov 22, 2011
India Among 15 Nations Tops in Child Pneumonia Deaths: IVAC Study - Breastfeeding for six months, early diagnosis and medicine, effective health delivery and smoke-free cooking could prevent the deaths in developing countries Hyderabad ,Nov 21: India, an emerging economic superpower along with China in Asia, but with below 1 per cent of its GDP spending on public health, registers the highest number of child pneumonia deaths in the world.
As many as 3- 4 million child deaths could be prevented by accelerating use of pneumococcal vaccines in all developing countries over the next decade, says A Pneumonia Progress Report-2011 released recently by the International Vaccine Access Centre(IVAC) under the John Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health(USA).
China however tops the list of countries with 99 per cent of children immunized for Pertusis as also Measles in 2010,
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