Saving Babies' Lives by Preventing Neonatal Sepsis

Public Health On Call by The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health

Aug 31, 202612:30Society & Culture

About this episode: Global infant mortality has fallen dramatically since 1990, but neonatal sepsis—a serious bloodstream infection occurring in newborns—still accounts for a significant portion of preventable deaths. Si...

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