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12th Baby Dies of Undetermined Causes at Fort Bragg
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Mar 9, 2011 - 1:27:23 PM

(HealthNewsDigest.com) - ProPublica's Joaquin Sapien reports that another baby, four-and-a-half-month-old Jaxson Garza, has died of undetermined causes in military housing at Fort Bragg, N.C., bringing the total of mysterious infant deaths to 12. Investigators are now trying to determine whether or not the death is linked to fumes from contaminated drywall or some other environmental problem in the home.

Although Jaxson's family haven't noticed any corrosion on the copper wiring on their home, which is the most obvious sign of defective drywall, Brittany Garza, Jaxson's mother, said that while she was pregnant with Jaxson she fainted several times and often had a bloody nose, problems that have been linked to exposure to defective drywall. She didn't experience these problems during her earlier pregnancies.

As ProPublica has previously reported, experts remain skeptical of the Consumer Product Safety Commission's report that the 11 previous infant deaths at Fort Bragg are not related to an environmental issue, including contaminated drywall.

In particular, David M. Abramson, a professor at Columbia University, points to the first unexplained infant death in February 2007 and how three children from three different families died in a single home.

"The odds of three babies dying in a short order in the same house without an underlying condition of some sort, it's very unlikely. It's enormously unlikely."

Read the full story on our website - http://www.propublica.org/article/fort-bragg-infant-death-toll-may-climb-to-twelve - and see all of our reporting on contaminated drywall here - http://www.propublica.org/topic/tainted-drywall. You can also follow Joaquin on Twitter, @jbsapien.

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