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A household survey in one Vietnamese province found that only 4.3 per cent of 7,030 war-debris casualties came from landmines. What the casualty records show about explosive remnants of war, who dies, and the prevention programme nobody could measure.
Key takeaways · 13 min read The half-million figure rests on one survey: the 1999 Iraq Child and Maternal Mortality Survey, about 38,000 households. It reported under-five deaths rising from 59 to 116 per 1,000 between 1990 and 1991, reaching 142 by 1998. Three later national surveys — 2004, 2006 and 2011, covering 75,000 households…
Stagnation and Legionella are genuinely linked — in dead legs and capped pipe spurs. An empty building is a different claim, and in the one building anyone measured, the standard remedy backfired.
The famous figure came from 392 people, applied only to strained spouses, with a confidence interval starting at 1.00. Larger studies found the reverse — and inside them, strain still predicts death.
A systematic review of 26 studies found 1,984 people struck by kinetic impact projectiles: 53 died and 300 were permanently disabled. Neither that review nor its companion on tear gas can give you a rate, and both say so.
File photo: a modern hospital room. Photo: JesusisGreat7, via Wikimedia Commons, CC0. In the news · September 2026 For World Patient Safety Day on 17 September 2026, the WHO focused on safe care for people with noncommunicable diseases. It states that about 1 in 10 patients are harmed during healthcare worldwide, roughly half of that…
In This Series: Road, Transit & Child Safety Nobody Skips the Car Seat. The Deaths Are in the Exceptions. Half of the People Who Die in Crashes Were Not Wearing a Belt Three Quarters of Pedestrian Deaths Happen After Dark. Your Reflective Vest Is in the Wrong Place. A Child Physically Cannot See a Car…
Key takeaways · 11 min read In Kentucky over seventeen years, 87% of 36,673 boil-water advisories were issued because of a line break or leak, not because of a positive test. Average duration was five days. A pressure loss stops the pipe being a sealed system. That is the mechanism, and it has the best…
Key takeaways · 12 min read In the largest global analysis, wars between 1990 and 2017 were associated with 29.4 million excess civilian deaths after battle deaths had been removed from the data. 21.0 million of those were communicable, maternal, neonatal and nutritional; 6.0 million were non-communicable disease; 2.4 million were injuries other than combat,…
213,000 children a year, three quarters of them from falls, and mostly broken arms. The one randomised trial of playground surfacing found the certified material came off worse — and one piece of safety equipment has killed children on climbing frames.
