Infant mortality rate in Czech Republic reaches record low

The infant mortality rate in the Czech Republic reached a record low last year, according to the country's institute for health information. In 2006 3.3 Czech babies in every 1,000 died before reaching the age of one; that was a slight improvement on 3.4 percent in 2005, which was also a record. Over 100,000 babies were born in the Czech Republic last year, with 100 girls for every 115 boys.