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In a message dated 3/5/01 3:33:57 PM Eastern Standard Time,
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  Elisheva, you wrote:

> However, I have a question about the accounting.   In the US, 24 weekers and
> similar very early premies are routinely delivered alive, count as live
> births and presumably the many of them that sadly do not make it are counted
> in our infant mortality statistics.
>
> Is this also true in poorer countries?

>  remember this being discussed about 7 years ago in public health journals.
>  I believe that these babies are NOT counted in other "developing"
> countries mortality rates.
>
> Dori - BS, IBCLC, MPH (this year)
>

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