infant
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The warning is based on an analysis of 12 key indicators including infant mortality, mental health, obesity, vaccine rates and asthma.
From BBC ● Sep. 9, 2026
Pennsylvania counted the death as one of two measles deaths, but the local coroner said the infant died from a ruptured spleen.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 4, 2026
Monterey County authorities received a disturbing report on a recent Saturday morning: An infant had been discovered on the side of a county road next to a strawberry field.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 1, 2026
The door to the neonatal intensive care unit was locked, according to Jaweria, a woman who said she lost her infant in the blaze.
From Barron's ● Aug. 26, 2026
It was a plaything, made in the distant past for the use of infant woodlanders.
From "Redwall" by Brian Jacques
Officials described them to the BBC as infants, although some local reports suggest they are between one and two years old.
From BBC ● Sep. 9, 2026
On my boat, a packed, three-deck pleasure cruise otherwise populated by swimsuit-clad tourists and screaming infants, the story was much the same.
From Slate ● Sep. 8, 2026
A fire erupted in a hospital maternity ward in Islamabad on Wednesday killing 14 infants, Pakistan authorities said, blaming a faulty air conditioner for the blaze.
From Barron's ● Aug. 26, 2026
The former is set in early ’80s L.A. among the same milieu of nihilistic infants that the series’ co-creator, Bret Easton Ellis, has been surveying since the ’80s.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 5, 2026
I marveled that whole bands of boys and girls were out in the forest all on their own, with knives and spears and infants strapped on their backs.
From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver
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