Word: infantability
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...succeeding generations. The garbage pickers stay alive by sorting through the refuse that is hauled out from the city in creaking donkey carts. The ragged men and women save the bottles and tin cans to be sold, and feed the slop to the pigs who live with them. Infant mortality in the community is an appalling...
Additional support for the infectious-agent hypothesis comes from the growing number of patients who may have contracted AIDS from blood transfusions. Eight hemophiliacs and two heart-transplant patients who received blood appear to have been infected in this manner. In addition, a San Francisco infant who received multiple transfusions at birth developed infections and other signs of AIDS. Some of the baby's blood came from a donor who was later diagnosed as an AIDS victim. As a result, blood-bank operators around the country are searching assiduously for a way to detect AIDS in blood...
...refusals to buy products of the Nestle Company centered on claims by a Harvard consumer group that Nestle marketed a mother's-milk substitute that caused malnutrition and increased infant mortality in Third World Countries...
...member committee decided at its Monday meeting to reverse its position because Nestle no longer distributes the infant formula, said Chairman James T. Polsfut '83 this week. "The Committee felt that the decision of boycotting the product should be left up to the individual consumer...
...spite of continuing controversy over Nestle's general marketing policies in the Third World, the company's removal of the infant formula cleared the way for return of its products to North House...