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...Russell of Oak Ridge had some unhappy news for the atom-age world. He presented impressive evidence that a dose of radiation stretched over a long period produces more mutation in mammals than the same dose concentrated in a short period. Since nearly all mutations are harmful to unborn generations, this finding makes even moderate amounts of long-lived radioactive fallout seem like a serious threat to man's future...
...usually a lowly and unimportant disease, German measles (or rubella), long enjoyed the unsavory reputation of being the only virus clearly convicted of killing or crippling babies in the womb. But many other viruses are now emerging from researchers' culture tubes to qualify as enemies of the unborn...
...stillbirth commonly result from infections with the viruses of smallpox, ordinary measles (rubeola), polio, influenza and, less often, mumps. Measles works fast and is deadly to the fetus probably because of the high fever that accompanies the appearance of the red spots. Polio is not a deformer of the unborn, and usually is not deadly if the mother's infection comes late in pregnancy. But polio sometimes causes premature birth...
...success of the peaceful policy of the Soviet Union, a success of all the states advocating the aversion of the danger of a new war." Lord Home orated emotionally, saying the treaty meant that "every human family can live, from now on, free from fear that their unborn children will be affected by man-made poison...
Jane, after finding how helpful a slick "doctor" is willing to be for fifty pounds ("but not on a weekend, please"), decides she wants to keep her unborn child. She takes a room at Doris's boarding house--"an Israel for bugs" with no exodus--to wait out her pregnancy...