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Study finds link between swine flu and stillbirth
Babies born to mothers who contracted the swine flu virus faced a much greater risk of being stillborn (the death of a baby before birth at or above 28 weeks of pregnancy), according to a new study by the National Perinatal Epidemiology Unit at the Oxford University. Baby deaths among women infected with the 2009 strain of the virus were five times higher than normal.
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