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Latest News Brief: Take Pneumonia seriously

Pneumonia claimed the lives of more than 800,000 children under the age of five last year, or one child every 39 seconds, the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) said on Tuesday. Most deaths occurred among children under the age of two, and almost 153,000 within the first month of life. More than half of child pneumonia deaths were in Nigeria, India, Pakistan, the Democratic Republic of Congo and Ethiopia.

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