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Toy-related injuries on the rise in US

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Washington: Toy-related injuries in the US rose by nearly 40 percent from 1990 through 2011, says a new study.

The study highlights that while playing with toys helps children to develop, learn, and explore, parents should also note that many toys pose an injury risk to children.

In this first-of-its-kind study, the researchers found that an estimated 3,278,073 children were treated in United States emergency departments from 1990 through 2011 for a toy-related injury.

In 2011, a child was treated every three minutes for such an injury.

Slightly more than half of the injuries happened among children younger than five years of age.

“The frequency and increasing rate of injuries to children associated with toys, especially those associated with foot-powered scooters, is concerning,” said Gary Smith, the study’s senior author and professor of pediatrics at the Ohio State University in the US.

Children of different ages face different hazards from toys, Smith said.

Children younger than three years of age are at particular risk of choking on small toys and small parts of toys.

During the study period, there were more than 109,000 cases of children younger than five swallowing or inhaling “foreign bodies,” the equivalent of almost 14 cases per day.

As children get older, injuries involving riding toys increase. Those toys – which include foot-powered scooters, wagons and tricycles – were associated with 42 percent of injuries to children within five to 17 years of age and 28 percent of injuries to children younger than five.

Injuries with ride-on toys were three times more likely to involve a broken bone or a dislocation than other toys.

The findings appeared online in the journal Clinical Pediatrics.

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Covid toll in Karnataka is a worrying sign for state government

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Even though Karnataka recorded the lowest number of Covid deaths in April since the virus struck first in 2020, the state is recording a rise in the positivity rate (1.50 per cent). Five people died from the Covid infections in April as per the statistics released by the state health department. In March, the positivity rate stood around 0.53 per cent. In the first week of April it came down to 0.38 per cent, second week registered 0.56 per cent, third week it rose to 0.79 per cent and by end of April the Covid positivity rate touched 1.19 per cent.

on an average 500 persons used to succumb everyday in the peak of Covid infection, as per the data. Health experts said that the mutated Coronavirus is losing its fierce characteristics as vaccination, better treatment facilities and awareness among the people have contributed to the lesser number of Covid deaths.

During the 4th and 6th of April two deaths were reported in Bengaluru, one in Gadag district on April 8, two deaths were reported from Belagavi and Vijayapura on April 30. The first Covid case was reported in the state in March 2020 and three Covid deaths were recorded in the month. In the following month 21 people became victims to the deadly virus, and May 2020 recorded 22 deaths. The death toll recorded everyday after May crossed three digits. However, the third wave, which started in January 2

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