Reply #29: Sure. But you'll have to do a little reading.

[pnwmom]

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19756336

Or if you don't like that source, you can look at this one. What you'll find is that the recommendations made in the U.S. are anything but universal. For some reason, our babies need more vaccines than babies in many other first world countries.

http://apps.who.int/immunization_monitoring/en/globalsummary/DiseaseSelect.cfm

And yet, despite all those vaccines, the U.S. has a higher childhood mortality rate than many other countries.

http://articles.latimes.com/2010/may/24/nation/la-na-child-mortality-20100524

"But as much of the world makes strides in reducing child mortality, the U.S. is increasingly lagging and ranks 42nd globally, behind much of Europe as well as the United Arab Emirates, Cuba and Chile.

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Even many countries that already had low child mortality rates, such as Sweden and France, were able to cut their rates more rapidly than the U.S. over the last two decades.

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"We certainly have outstanding medical science and centers of excellence that rival the best in the world," said Cathy Schoen, an expert on global health systems at the nonpartisan Commonwealth Fund. "But many other countries have been putting many more resources into thinking about how they can improve. … They have been far more strategic."

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Other countries with slow rates of decline include Britain, New Zealand and South Korea, which have all fallen in the international rankings since 1990. All three are still ahead of the U.S.