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From: carter@gatech.UUCP (Carter Bullard)
Newsgroups: net.med
Subject: Re: Miscarriages
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Date: Sat, 24-Nov-84 12:56:13 EST
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Posted: Sat Nov 24 12:56:13 1984
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Consider that a great number of miscarriages occur without the mother
ever knowing that conception had taken place,ie. within the first 6 weeks
of pregnancy. The figure that I have seen for prenatal survivability of 
humans, at least in medical embryology texts, is around 45-65%. 
It is likely that every sexually active female will have at least one 
undetected miscarriage in their lifetime. 
-- 
Carter Bullard
ICS, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta GA 30332
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