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Every week in the
United Kingdom... 13,502 babies are born 702,000/yr: Labour Force Statistics, 1999 Edition |
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1 of these babies might be born with Muscular Dystrophy.
1 in 50,000: Muscular Dystrophy Campaign 4 of these babies are born with Spina Bifida. 3.2/10,000: Center for Disease Control and Prevention 7 of these babies are born with HIV infection. 374/yr: Public Health Laboratory Service 13 of these babies are born with Down Syndrome. 1/1,000: Center for Disease Control 26 of these babies are born with Fetal Alcohol Syndrome. 19.5 per 10,000: Natl Org. of Fetal Alcohol Syndrome 135 of these babies are born with Alcohol Related Neurodevelopmental Disorder. 1/100: Teratology 1997 Nov;56(5):317-26 The comprehensive lifetime cost of just one baby with FAS could be as much as £3,500,000 $5 million US: FAS Community Resource Center "These incidence figures are offered not as established facts but to emphasize the magnitude of a problem that has serious implications - for the individual and for society. " From the Executive Summary from Institute of Medicine report. | |