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Article: Advice to pregnant women during the lambing season.
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- January 8, 2009
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M2 PRESSWIRE-8 January 2009-UK Government: Advice to pregnant women during the lambing season(C)1994-2009 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD
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Pregnant women should avoid close contact with sheep during the lambing season, the Government advised today.
The Department of Health, the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, and the Health and Safety Executive advised that pregnant women who come into close contact with sheep during lambing may risk their own health and that of their unborn child, from infections that can occur in some ewes.
Although the number of reports of these infections and human miscarriages resulting ...