Infant deaths: Searching for answers
Excerpt:Babies in Mississippi are less likely to reach their first birthday than babies in any other state, according to CDC data. For years, Mississippi's infant mortality rate has ranked last in the U.S. Experts point to several contributing factors, including obesity, poverty and teen births Top 10 CNN Hero Catalina Escobar is fighting the same problem in Colombia Colombia's rate is higher than any state, but it's comparable to the rates of black Americans (CNN) -- The room was lined with baby after baby, and it was almost too warm for Keri Dykes to tolerate. She remembers squeezing between the incubators to see her son Jesse, who had been born only 25 weeks into her pregnancy. A neonatal intensive care unit in Tupelo, Mississippi, is where Jesse spent his brief life in 2008 -- a life cut short by an infection that got into his bloodstream and lungs.
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Mary Currier
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| 0.163473 | "Infant mortality goes along with poverty, and we have a pretty low average income in the state," says Currier. |
| 0.218465 | "It is my belief that is largely due to poverty and the social determinants of health," Currier said ... |
| -0.0518274 | "If we can increase access to that injectable medication, that can decrease preterm birth," said Currier, ... |
| 0.21631 | "at least we're going in the right direction," she said. ... |
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Catalina Escobar
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| 0 | "You see these girls, (with) their tiny faces ... they're babies holding babies," Escobar said. ... |
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Keri Dykes
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| 0 | "It's just something you never, ever think will happen to you," she said. ... |
| 0.191119 | "We just pretty much believe that God had a purpose for (Jesse), and he did touch a lot of lives while he was here," Dykes said. ... |
| 0.191119 | "We just pretty much believe that God had a purpose for (Jesse), and he did touch a lot of lives while he was here," Dykes said. "We just have to believe that we don't have to understand." |
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Eve Lackritz
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| 0 | "This should be an active area of research," Lackritz said. ... |
| -0.213338 | "This should be an active area of research," Lackritz said. "This is an area that has not received the sufficient attention that it deserves." |
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Anitra Cooper
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| 0 | "I was still breast-feeding him at the time," Cooper said. ... |
| 0 | "I was still breast-feeding him at the time," Cooper said. "I was doing everything that I could possibly do." |
| 0 | "A lot of people go to the doctor and don't make the doctor talk in layman's terms," Cooper said. ... |
| -0.0857053 | "A lot of people go to the doctor and don't make the doctor talk in layman's terms," Cooper said. "They're unaware of what they need to do for their children." |
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Pushpa Basnet
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| 0.135568 | "I always had a dream to build our own home for these children, and I want to rescue more children who are still in prisons," Basnet said. ... |
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Jesse Ray
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Alex
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Babies in Mississippi are less likely to reach their first birthday than babies in any other state. Why? There's not one clear explanation, but experts cite a multitude of factors, including poverty and obesity.
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