The number of babies dying from bleeding out has grown alarmingly because many parents, influenced by skepticism toward medicine, reject the vitamin K injection at birth.
Even though it is not actually a vaccine, widespread distrust toward these preparations caused rejection rates to increase by 77 % in recent years.
This decision is critical, since newborns lack this vitamin for clotting at birth, raising the risk of fatal brain hemorrhages by 81 times.
In this way, what was once an almost eradicated disease now claims the lives of 1 in 5 babies affected by the lack of this basic dose. 😣