Neonatal tetanus accounts for a smaller proportion of deaths (7 percent), but is easily preventable.

But Haiti's deep poverty makes it fertile ground for easily preventable disasters.

But we could still think that for them to do these things while others die from easily preventable diseases is wrong.

Most of these diseases are easily preventable, relatively cheap to cure, and if treated properly unlikely to cause long-term complications.

When they do, they'll find that many of the conditions that plague their gender are easily preventable.

One-third of the robberies were in buildings or subways and not easily preventable by foot patrols.

But many said they were still at a loss to understand why an easily preventable tragedy had happened.

Meanwhile, the economy has been devastated and Iraqis are dying from easily preventable diseases.

In the second ward, typhoid, an easily preventable disease, had slowly starved a young girl to near death.

In Africa, a child dies from this disease - this easily preventable disease - every 45 seconds.