Why 7,000 people die needlessly every day - Sky News
Why 7,000 people die needlessly every day - Sky News Why 7,000 people die needlessly every day - Sky News Posted: 31 Jul 2019 08:41 PM PDT By Carmen Aguilar García, data journalist and Philip Whiteside, international news reporter Each one of these dots is a death from vaccine-preventable diseases. At least, 7,131 people died every day on average in 2017 Almost two in five of them were children under 5 years old But this is just one day. Around 2.6 million died across the world that year The number has halved since 1990, from 5 million, with much of the drop coming since 2000 Pneumonia caused by the pneumococcus bacteria and rotavirus are the main causes of death Measles , tetanus and Hib have also killed millions, but the number dying has fallen substantially In recent years some vaccine preventable diseases have been on the rise Measles deaths , for example, have doubled in Europe in the last decade, from 86 to 193 ...