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There is urban infant mortality, of the sort found in cities such as Los Angeles, linked increasingly to drug addiction, violence and infectious diseases such as AIDS. There is rural infant mortality, often a product of isolation, culture and poverty. Advertisement Those factors are bewilderingly ...