We are talking about the flu here not small pox. Make no mistake, when it comes to the flu, itâs a money driven game! The verdict is out on flu shots. Many medical experts now agree it is more important to protect yourself and your family from the flu vaccine than the flu itself. Letâs take a look at the reasons behind this verdict: 1.) There is a total lack of real evidence that young children even benefit from flu shots.
Tom Brakefield/Stockbyte/Getty Images. Porcupine babies are born more developed than the babies of many other types of rodents, mostly because porcupines tend to have one baby at a time instead of litters, and they carry the babies for up to seven months before delivery. But the babies still need their moms, and they sometimes stay with them for up to a year.
In the UK in recent years, approximately 1 in every 920 babies born has Down syndrome (745 babies in England and Wales and around 840 babies throughout the UK each year). In the USA, approximately 1 in 830 babies are born with Down syndrome (4,700 annually). Across Europe, around 9,000 babies are born with the condition annually. Worldwide, we estimate that 220,000 babies are born every year with Down syndrome. In the UK, the birth rate has risen in recent years: in the five years to 2009, the birth rate was 9% higher and 22% more babies were born than in the previous 5 years. In the US, between 1979 and 2003, live birth prevalence increased by 31%, from 9.0 to 11.8 per 10,000 live births.