from these figures it appears that , in most countries , accidents are becoming relatively increasingly prominent as a cause of death in childhood , primarily because of the conquest of other causes of death-such as infectious and parasitic diseases , which formerly took a heavy toll of children and adolescents-but also to some extent because the death-rate from motor-vehicle accidents is rising and cancelling out the reduction in the rate for other causes of accidental death .
C0009450
infectious
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parasitic diseases