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Article: Scientists find breast milk component that prevents rotavirus symptoms
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- April 16, 1998
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EMMA ROSS Associated Press Writer
AP Online
04-16-1998
LONDON (AP) _ Scientists have identified the component of breast milk that protects babies from infection by rotavirus, a major cause of potentially deadly diarrhea, according to research published Friday in a British medical journal.
The finding, published in The Lancet, provides more evidence in favor of breast-feeding. It could be a step toward the development of a medicine to be given directly to babies to fight diarrhea, said the study's main author, David Newburg, a biochemist at the Shriver Center for Mental Retardation in Massachusetts.
Rotavirus causes severe diarrhea that puts 55,000 U.S. children in hospitals each ...