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Trying to write off the rest of the deaths as improper sleeping doesn’t really make sense to me - that’s like saying that since the majority of strep cases can
by sonotathrowaway 4y ago
Trying to write off the rest of the deaths as improper sleeping doesn’t really make sense to me - that’s like saying that since the majority of strep cases can be treated with broad spectrum antibiotics, therefore MERS doesn’t exist.
- colechristensen 4y agoThere are indeed always going to be unknown causes of death at any age, sometimes it is just hard to determine. It seems inappropriate to give a name and diagnosis to “cause unknown” MERS and strep both have easily attributed causes. SIDS seems really not to, it really seems that there is not an underlying cause that doesn’t already exist. “Babies are more susceptible to suffocation and more care needs to be taken in their sleeping arrangement” doesn’t seem like a disease, even if some babies are more susceptible than others (and those many individual susceptibilities already have names) Baby humans are vulnerable to lots of things because that’s what they are, SIDS and modern attempts to attribute it to things seems to be a harmful distraction from the actual causes of death.