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 Child Information - December 1, 2008
| The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says Americans today have lower levels of potentially dangerous substances in their blood than ten years ago. Such substances include lead and byproducts of secondhand smoke | | Former President Bill Clinton is making a pledge to aid Kenya in the expansion of HIV/AIDS care and treatment. Clinton says his foundation received grants worth $1.5 million to help train medical workers for rural areas in this East African nation for particular treatment of children and people in those areas who tend to receive the fewest services in poor countries | | According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Americans today have lower levels of potentially dangerous substances in their blood than those 10 years ago. Such substances include lead and byproducts of secondhand smoke | | The World Health Organization has announced that the number of children affected by the polio virus, in an outbreak in Indonesia, has gone up to 155. All the children are victims of a recent outbreak. Moreover, 33 new cases have also been confirmed | | A report released by Health Day News Dr. Duane Alexander, director of the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development says, "This year, the adolescent birth rate has reached another record low, the death rate for children aged 1 to 4 is the lowest ever, young children are more likely to receive their recommended immunizations, and fourth graders are scoring better in math | |
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