CNN Suggests Parents Can Prevent a Syndrome

[Laurence Horn]

At 4:43 PM -0500 12/21/08, Doug Harris wrote:
>A CNN headline today: "How can parents prevent SIDS?"
>While parents may be able to prevent an infant death,
>preventing a syndrome would be a lofty goal indeed,
>or so it seems to me.
>dh
>
>
Well, if condoms, or practicing safe sex more generally, can prevent
AIDS (Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome), parents can presumably
prevent SIDS.

LH

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