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To: originalbuckeye
I wonder what sort of filthy conditions allowed a newborn to get an infection?

When my Dad was in the Navy during WWII his ship was in port next a British ship. He and his buddies went aboard to look it over and they were shocked to find that it was filthy. When one of our sailors commented about it a Brit sailor replied, "We're a fighting Navy not a clean Navy."

I'm glad to be ten generations removed from that and will fight to stay that way.

5 posted on 08/17/2017 8:12:52 AM PDT by higgmeister ( In the Shadow of The Big Chicken)
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To: higgmeister

Babies in distress before delivery can inhale meconium ( basically their own stool excreted into amniotic fluid) and develop serious internal infection


7 posted on 08/17/2017 8:18:28 AM PDT by silverleaf (We voted for change, not leftover change)
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