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  • Breastfed Babies May Be Less Stressed Children

    08/03/2006 2:04:01 PM PDT · by Zakeet · 21 replies · 747+ views
    Fox News ^ | August 3, 2006 | Miranda Hitti
    Breastfed babies appear to handle stress better a decade later than their bottle-fed peers. The researchers who report that finding in the Archives of Disease in Childhood’s Aug. 3 advance online edition aren’t ready to give breastfeeding sole credit. It’s possible breastfed babies have other advantages that help them cope with stress, note Scott Montgomery, BSc, PhD, and colleagues in the journal. Montgomery’s team studied more than 8,900 children born in the U.K. in 1970. The children’s moms were interviewed soon after giving birth, and again when the kids were 5 and 10 years old. When the kids were 5,...
  • Breastfed Baby Exposed to Smallpox Vaccine Virus

    02/14/2004 12:08:05 PM PST · by EvaClement · 13 replies · 383+ views
    Reuters Top News ^ | Thu February 12, 2004 06:01 PM ET | Paul Simao
    ATLANTA (Reuters) - A U.S. soldier's wife who was accidentally exposed to the live virus in the smallpox vaccine likely passed it on to her baby through breast-feeding, according to military authorities. The incident, which occurred in May 2003 as the U.S. military was inoculating hundreds of thousands of soldiers against smallpox, is the first documented case of third-hand transmission of vaccinia virus through breast-feeding. Vaccinia is not smallpox, but a pox-like virus related to the rare and deadly virus. Cases of accidental transmission are rare, usually occurring through direct contact with a vaccinated person's unhealed vaccination site. In a...