In developing countries pneumonia remains a leading causes of child deaths. New research shows that the first antibiotic treatments for pneumonia in 1937 didn’t just save children's lives – but those who received it saw long lasting effects on their education, employment and income.
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Early antibiotics delivered lifelong economic gains - but only where opportunity followed
In the late 1930s and early 1940s pneumonia was the leading cause of infant mortality in the United States, accounting for one in ten deaths. It remains the leading cause of child death today, driven…