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Each year, about 85 percent of the worldâs children receive vaccines that protect them against tuberculosis, polio, diphtheria, tetanus, pertussis, and measles. These vaccines save about 2.5 million lives, and the hepatitis B vaccine, although not as widely used, saves about 600,000 lives. Despite this success, more than 3 million people die from vaccine-preventable diseases each year. Approximately 1.5 million of these deaths are in children less than 5 years old. Of the top 10 causes of death in those less than 5 years old, several are infectious, meaning they can be transmitted from one person to another.
But thereâs a big problem with blaming this countryâs epidemic of gun violence on mental illness: The evidence overwhelmingly doesnât support it. On average, an estimated 32,514 people die from gun violence in the United States each year and an additional 75,962 people are injured by firearms. Between 2007 and 2011, an average of 62 children under age 14 were killed every single day.