Situated downwind of a belt of incinerators in Saitama prefecture, the city has an infant death rate 40% to 70% higher than the average for the prefecture.

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He pointed out that in Sweden, rates of sudden infant death had - despite a fall in the early 1990s - returned to the same rate as in the 1970s.

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