If we have the most aggressive vaccination program in the civilized world?

Question

........Why do we also have the highest infant mortality rate in the civilized world ( in the US) ?


And if you were to say assumingly "no prenatal care", what does that have to do with anything?

greeneyeddevil: meaning the 'civilized WESTERN world".

and to the other one: the point is not moot since many of those things you meantioned ARE controversially related to vaccines, the rest of whatever you stated to do with prenatal care makes no sense.

Answer 1

who cares, it's good that more of our babies die, there are going to be too many people eventually. If we can delay the inevitable for a couple more years I'm cool with it. The rest of the civilized world should be thanking us and finding out how we do it.

Answer 2

Well, we also have the most aggressive invasion from a 3rd world nation too. It's contributed to huge jumps in infant mortality, tuberculosis and other diseases.

No prenatal care would mean that there a A LOT of women out there who just don't care enough to avail themselves of the free and low cost prenatal care available in this country. They are more worried about picking up their next welfare check and/or their next fix.

Answer 3

Actually it has to do with the statistic of children that are immigrating to the US and not being properly vaccinated from the get go. If a child dies in the US although not from the US they are still counted as a US statistic. This in turn makes our mortality rate jump. Why this is I am not sure. Hope this helped!

Answer 4

You're trying to correlate two things that aren't really related to one another. The major causes of infant mortality in developed countries are congenital malformation, infection, and SIDS. The most common cause of infant mortaility around the world is dehydration from diarhea. None of those things can be linked to vaccinations, so your argument is moot.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infant_mortality

Answer 5

Rankings > Infant mortality rate (All Ascending)

Rank Country Value / Unit
1. Singapore 2.28 deaths/1,000 live births
2. Sweden 2.77 deaths/1,000 live births
3. Hong Kong 2.97 deaths/1,000 live births
4. Japan 3.28 deaths/1,000 live births
5. Iceland 3.31 deaths/1,000 live births
6. Finland 3.59 deaths/1,000 live births
7. Norway 3.73 deaths/1,000 live births
8. Malta 3.94 deaths/1,000 live births
9. Czech Republic 3.97 deaths/1,000 live births
10. Andorra 4.05 deaths/1,000 live births
11. Germany 4.20 deaths/1,000 live births
12. France 4.31 deaths/1,000 live births
13. Macau 4.39 deaths/1,000 live births
14. Switzerland 4.43 deaths/1,000 live births
15. Spain 4.48 deaths/1,000 live births
16. Slovenia 4.50 deaths/1,000 live births
17. Denmark 4.63 deaths/1,000 live births
18. Austria 4.68 deaths/1,000 live births
19. Australia 4.76 deaths/1,000 live births
Belgium 4.76 deaths/1,000 live births
21. Liechtenstein 4.77 deaths/1,000 live births
22. Canada 4.82 deaths/1,000 live births
23. Luxembourg 4.88 deaths/1,000 live births
24. Netherlands 5.11 deaths/1,000 live births
25. Portugal 5.13 deaths/1,000 live births
26. United Kingdom 5.22 deaths/1,000 live births
27. Ireland 5.50 deaths/1,000 live births
28. Monaco 5.53 deaths/1,000 live births
29. Greece 5.63 deaths/1,000 live births
30. San Marino 5.85 deaths/1,000 live births
31. New Zealand 5.96 deaths/1,000 live births
32. Aruba 6.02 deaths/1,000 live births
33. Italy 6.07 deaths/1,000 live births
34. Cuba 6.45 deaths/1,000 live births
35. Taiwan 6.52 deaths/1,000 live births
36. United States 6.63 deaths/1,000 live births
37. Croatia 6.96 deaths/1,000 live births
38. Lithuania 7.13 deaths/1,000 live births
39. Korea, South 7.18 deaths/1,000 live births
40. Israel 7.21 deaths/1,000 live births
41. Cyprus 7.36 deaths/1,000 live births
42. Slovakia 7.62 deaths/1,000 live births
43. New Caledonia 7.89 deaths/1,000 live births
44. Reunion 7.95 deaths/1,000 live births
45. Estonia 8.08 deaths/1,000 live births
46. Virgin Islands 8.21 deaths/1,000 live births
47. Puerto Rico 8.37 deaths/1,000 live births
48. Cayman Islands 8.41 deaths/1,000 live births
49. French Polynesia 8.61 deaths/1,000 live births
50. Hungary 8.68 deaths/1,000 live births
51. Poland 8.73 deaths/1,000 live births
52. Bermuda 8.79 deaths/1,000 live births
53. Chile 9.05 deaths/1,000 live births
54. American Samoa 9.48 deaths/1,000 live births
55. Latvia 9.67 deaths/1,000 live births
56. Nauru 10.14 deaths/1,000 live births
57. Costa Rica 10.26 deaths/1,000 live births
Kuwait 10.26 deaths/1,000 live births
59. Netherlands Antilles 10.37 deaths/1,000 live births
60. Macedonia 11.74 deaths/1,000 live births
61. Uruguay 12.31 deaths/1,000 live births
62. French Guiana 12.46 deaths/1,000 live births
63. Barbados 12.61 deaths/1,000 live births
64. Jamaica 12.81 deaths/1,000 live births
65. Fiji 12.99 deaths/1,000 live births
Tonga 12.99 deaths/1,000 live births
67. Brunei 13.05 deaths/1,000 live births
68. Serbia and Montenegro 13.43 deaths/1,000 live births
69. Belarus 13.62 deaths/1,000 live births
70. Saudi Arabia 13.70 deaths/1,000 live births
71. Saint Lucia 13.95 deaths/1,000 live births
72. Grenada 14.62 deaths/1,000 live births
73. Dominica 14.75 deaths/1,000 live births
74. Sri Lanka 14.78 deaths/1,000 live births
75. Saint Kitts and Nevis 14.94 deaths/1,000 live births
76. United Arab Emirates 15.06 deaths/1,000 live births
77. Saint Vincent and the Grenadines 15.24 deaths/1,000 live births
78. Palau 15.30 deaths/1,000 live births
79. Mauritius 15.57 deaths/1,000 live births
80. Argentina 15.66 deaths/1,000 live births
81. Seychelles 15.97 deaths/1,000 live births
82. Greenland 16.31 deaths/1,000 live births
83. Russia 16.96 deaths/1,000 live births
84. Bahrain 17.91 deaths/1,000 live births
85. British Virgin Islands 18.05 deaths/1,000 live births
86. Jordan 18.11 deaths/1,000 live births
87. Malaysia 18.35 deaths/1,000 live births
88. Qatar 19.32 deaths/1,000 live births
89. Georgia 19.34 deaths/1,000 live births
90. Saint Helena 19.85 deaths/1,000 live births
91. Antigua and Barbuda 20.18 deaths/1,000 live births
92. Oman 20.26 deaths/1,000 live births
93. Ukraine 20.61 deaths/1,000 live births
94. Tuvalu 20.69 deaths/1,000 live births
95. Panama 20.95 deaths/1,000 live births
96. Thailand 21.14 deaths/1,000 live births
97. Bulgaria 21.31 deaths/1,000 live births
98. Mexico 21.69 deaths/1,000 live births
99. Colombia 21.72 deaths/1,000 live births
100. Bosnia and Herzegovina 21.88 deaths/1,000 live births
101. Anguilla 21.91 deaths/1,000 live births
102. Solomon Islands 22.09 deaths/1,000 live births
103. Albania 22.31 deaths/1,000 live births
104. Venezuela 22.99 deaths/1,000 live births
105. Suriname 24.15 deaths/1,000 live births
106. Armenia 24.16 deaths/1,000 live births
107. Philippines 24.24 deaths/1,000 live births
108. Ecuador 24.49 deaths/1,000 live births
109. Trinidad and Tobago 24.64 deaths/1,000 live births
110. Korea, North 24.84 deaths/1,000 live births
111. China 25.28 deaths/1,000 live births
112. Lebanon 25.48 deaths/1,000 live births
113. Bahamas, The 25.70 deaths/1,000 live births
Libya 25.70 deaths/1,000 live births
115. Tunisia 25.76 deaths/1,000 live births
116. El Salvador 25.93 deaths/1,000 live births
117. Belize 26.37 deaths/1,000 live births
118. Paraguay 26.67 deaths/1,000 live births
119. Romania 27.24 deaths/1,000 live births
120. Samoa 28.72 deaths/1,000 live births
121. Honduras 29.64 deaths/1,000 live births
122. Vietnam 29.88 deaths/1,000 live births
123. Nicaragua 30.15 deaths/1,000 live births
124. Marshall Islands 30.50 deaths/1,000 live births
125. Kazakhstan 30.54 deaths/1,000 live births
126. Syria 30.60 deaths/1,000 live births
127. Brazil 30.66 deaths/1,000 live births
128. Algeria 32.16 deaths/1,000 live births
129. Peru 32.95 deaths/1,000 live births
130. Dominican Republic 33.28 deaths/1,000 live births
131. Egypt 33.90 deaths/1,000 live births
132. Kyrgyzstan 36.81 deaths/1,000 live births
133. Indonesia 36.82 deaths/1,000 live births
134. Guatemala 36.91 deaths/1,000 live births
135. Guyana 37.22 deaths/1,000 live births
136. Moldova 41.00 deaths/1,000 live births
137. Turkey 42.62 deaths/1,000 live births
138. Iran 42.86 deaths/1,000 live births
139. Morocco 43.25 deaths/1,000 live births
140. Sao Tome and Principe 44.58 deaths/1,000 live births
141. East Timor 48.86 deaths/1,000 live births
142. Cape Verde 49.14 deaths/1,000 live births
143. Kiribati 49.90 deaths/1,000 live births
144. Ghana 52.22 deaths/1,000 live births
145. Iraq 52.71 deaths/1,000 live births
146. Papua New Guinea 53.15 deaths/1,000 live births
147. Gabon 54.34 deaths/1,000 live births
148. Bolivia 54.58 deaths/1,000 live births
149. Mongolia 55.45 deaths/1,000 live births
150. Senegal 56.53 deaths/1,000 live births
151. Vanuatu 56.63 deaths/1,000 live births
152. India 57.92 deaths/1,000 live births
153. Maldives 58.32 deaths/1,000 live births
154. South Africa 62.18 deaths/1,000 live births
155. Kenya 62.62 deaths/1,000 live births
156. Yemen 63.26 deaths/1,000 live births
157. Sudan 64.05 deaths/1,000 live births
158. Bangladesh 64.32 deaths/1,000 live births
159. Zimbabwe 67.08 deaths/1,000 live births
160. Togo 67.66 deaths/1,000 live births
161. Swaziland 68.35 deaths/1,000 live births
162. Nepal 68.77 deaths/1,000 live births
163. Burma 68.78 deaths/1,000 live births
164. Cameroon 69.18 deaths/1,000 live births
165. Namibia 69.58 deaths/1,000 live births
166. Botswana 69.98 deaths/1,000 live births
167. Burundi 70.40 deaths/1,000 live births
168. Nigeria 70.49 deaths/1,000 live births
169. Uzbekistan 71.30 deaths/1,000 live births
170. Mauritania 72.35 deaths/1,000 live births
171. Turkmenistan 73.13 deaths/1,000 live births
172. Gambia, The 73.48 deaths/1,000 live births
173. Cambodia 73.67 deaths/1,000 live births
174. Haiti 74.38 deaths/1,000 live births
175. Pakistan 74.43 deaths/1,000 live births
176. Eritrea 75.59 deaths/1,000 live births
177. Comoros 77.22 deaths/1,000 live births
178. Madagascar 78.52 deaths/1,000 live births
179. Azerbaijan 82.07 deaths/1,000 live births
180. Lesotho 85.22 deaths/1,000 live births
181. Benin 85.88 deaths/1,000 live births
182. Uganda 86.15 deaths/1,000 live births
183. Laos 87.06 deaths/1,000 live births
184. Equatorial Guinea 87.08 deaths/1,000 live births
185. Guinea 91.82 deaths/1,000 live births
186. Central African Republic 92.15 deaths/1,000 live births
187. Congo, Republic of the 93.86 deaths/1,000 live births
188. Congo, Democratic Republic of the 94.69 deaths/1,000 live births
189. Chad 94.78 deaths/1,000 live births
190. Cote d'Ivoire 97.10 deaths/1,000 live births
191. Zambia 98.40 deaths/1,000 live births
192. Burkina Faso 98.67 deaths/1,000 live births
193. Rwanda 101.68 deaths/1,000 live births
194. Ethiopia 102.12 deaths/1,000 live births
195. Tanzania 102.13 deaths/1,000 live births
196. Bhutan 102.56 deaths/1,000 live births
197. Malawi 104.23 deaths/1,000 live births
198. Djibouti 105.54 deaths/1,000 live births
199. Guinea-Bissau 108.72 deaths/1,000 live births
200. Tajikistan 112.10 deaths/1,000 live births
201. Mali 117.99 deaths/1,000 live births
202. Somalia 118.52 deaths/1,000 live births
203. Niger 122.66 deaths/1,000 live births
204. Liberia 130.51 deaths/1,000 live births
205. Mozambique 137.08 deaths/1,000 live births
206. Sierra Leone 145.24 deaths/1,000 live births
207. Afghanistan 165.96 deaths/1,000 live births
208. Angola


Actually, we are nowhere near the worst. We have less than 1/4 the infant mortality rate of china. Stop buying into media hype.