Sudden Infant Death Cases Off 18% in ’95
From Times Staff and Wire Reports
Cases of sudden infant death syndrome dropped more than 18% in 1995 as parents learned not to let their babies sleep face down, but black infants were subject to “crib death” more than twice as often as white infants, federal health officials in Atlanta said. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said the rate of sudden infant death syndrome had declined 30% since 1992, when the American Academy of Pediatrics began urging parents to place children on their back or side to sleep.
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