Curse for kids - water and traffic

Drowning and traffic accidents top the list of causes for deaths and injuries among children and adolescents, even as the "injury death rate among kids has seen a significant decline" in recent years, a senior health official said yesterday.

"The rate of injuries and deaths among children continues to decrease," Yang Gonghuan, deputy director of the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), said yesterday.

"But drowning and traffic accidents are responsible for 66 percent of injuries and deaths among children and adolescents," she said.