Here's a really *lovely ditty* from the Health section in my local paper (The
Riverside [Calif] Press Enterprise):
"DENTAL CAVTIES: MOTHER MAY TRANSMIT CULPRIT BACTERIA TO BABY.
Intimate face to face moments with mom are the main way that cavity causing
bacteria get transmitted to children, dentristry Professor Page Caufield
says..."
The article goes on to say that the University of Alabama at Birmingham is
recruiting 200-300 mother infant pairs to follow from birth to three years
for their study. "Women at high risk for transmitting the cavity causing
bacteria will be treated with antimicrobial agents."
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Oh please! yet another stupid reason not to hold or cuddle or kiss our little
ones.

(Kathy Dettwyler can you *jump* on these people at the university level to
isolate breastfeeding couplets as a sub-study group? I'm sure breastmilk
would kill the bacteria)

What really angers me is that this looks someone's theory that has yet to be
proven, but is put in the paper like its already fact. Few people will get
past the headline.
One last thought: doesn't treating people with a lot of antibiotics result in
SUPER germs?

Marie Davis: Remembering why I hate reading the paper :-(