INFANT MORTALITY
Baby girls in India are twice as likely to die from treatable diseases such as diarrhoea as baby boys, say doctors based in Delhi and New Delhi. They compared causes of infant death in records collected by midwives at a community hospital in Delhi (British Medical Journal, vol 327, p 126). A majority of victims of sudden unexplained deaths were girls, with 13 girls dying for every 10 boys. However, death rates for less treatable diseases such as septicaemia were similar for both sexes. Prenatal sex tests were outlawed in India in 1994.
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