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What exactly are birth defects?
Are there any measures you can take to prevent them?
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According to the World Health Organization, an estimated 240,000 newborns die worldwide within 28 days of birth every year due to birth defects. These anomalies cause a further 170,000 deaths of children between the ages of one month and five years.
Click through and find out more about these serious malformations.
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