Why are children dying?
February 24, 2015 | Peter J. Hotez

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Peter J. Hotez
Fellow in Disease and PovertyAlmost half of the four million children worldwide who die before the age of five are killed by an infectious disease — some of which can be prevented by vaccines. Disease and poverty fellow Peter Hotez and postdoctoral fellow Jennifer Herricks discuss the recent release of global mortality numbers in "What Kills Little Kids," published by PLOS on Feb. 24, 2015.