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| A child in rural Mongolia receiving medical care in rural Mongolia ©UNICEF/NYHQ2010-0448/Cullen |
Today is
world pneumonia day. Globally pneumonia is the largest infectious killer of
children under five. In 2012 pneumonia killed 1.1 million children under five, or
5,500 children every day, or one child every 15 seconds. Nearly all of these
deaths occurred in developing countries.
