Unhealthy, polluted environments kill 1.7 million children each year: WHO

Sunday, March 5, 2017 - 20:01 in Health & Medicine

A quarter of all global deaths of children under five are due to unhealthy or polluted environments including dirty water and air, second-hand smoke and a lack of adequate hygiene, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Monday.

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