“These are just horribly, horribly sick kids,” said author Anna Banerji of the University of Toronto. ( Dreamstime / TNS )Research shows newborn babies in some Arctic regions have the highest rates of serious lung infections ever recorded in medical literature. “These are the highest rates in the world, higher than sub-Saharan Africa,” said lead author Anna Banerji of the University of Toronto. Banerji and her colleagues have been studying respiratory infections among newborns in the Arctic for years. Article Continued Below“Some of these rates are the highest documented rates in the medical literature.” In Nunavut’s westernmost region, more than 40 per cent of all babies born in 2009 were later admitted to hospital with lung infections.

Source: thestar October 18, 2016 21:00 UTC