9/11 attacks linked to loss of male babies
Tuesday, May 25, 2010 - 07:00
in Psychology & Sociology
The stress caused by psychological shock from the 9/11 terrorist attacks, felt even by people with no direct link to the event, may have led to an increased number of male children being miscarried in the US. Researchers writing in the open access journal BMC Public Health found that the foetal death rate for boys spiked in September 2001, and that significantly fewer boys than expected were born in December of that year...