Cot death epidemic over, says Trouw
Just 11 babies were classified as cot deaths in the Netherlands in 2006 compared with 190 in 1986, reports newspaper Trouw. Levels are now back to those of the early 1970s.
The fashion for putting babies to sleep on their stomachs was the main cause of the epidemic, the paper says.
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