Well --- that was quick.  I received a UNICEF document on childhood injuries that will put 
this in perspective ---- 

The one million deaths from not breastfeeding is (I believe) in only the first year of life.

The number of deaths for children AND adolescents --- a much larger age range is 875,000.

Out of those deaths, the most prominent causes of death were road crashes and drowning.

Out of those deaths, only 4% or 34,000 were from violence.  Gun deaths would be classified 
as deaths from violence.

So, the number of deaths from violence among children AND adolescents is 3.4% of the 
number of deaths among only infants from not breastfeeding.  And guns is only a fraction of 
all deaths from violence.

Soooooo, I guess that means that the number of deaths from bottles far outweighs the 
number of deaths from guns.

Best, Susan Burger

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