University Daily Kansan / Wednesday, April 10, 1991
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Cloth diapers may spread increased germs to babies
The Associated Press
CHICAGO — Banning disposable diapers in day care centers to reduce solid waste could increase sickness among babies, a new study says.
An environmental group and two day care center officials dismissed the findings, saying sanitation procedures and staff training are probably more important in preventing sickness than the type of diaper used.
The study linking cloth diapers to an increase in germs on toys and furniture was published in Wendelson and the American Medical Association.
Most of the financing for the study came from Procter & Gamble Co., a leading maker of disposable diapers, but Larry K. Pickering, the leading researcher, said the company had no influence on the study design or data analysis. He called for further research to verify the findings.
Disposable diapers make up an estimated 2 percent of the millions of newborns.
dump each year into overflowing landfills, the study said. Several states are trying to ban use of disposables in day care centers.
Fickering, head of pediatric infectious diseases at the University of Texas Medical School in Houston, and the other researchers found significantly fewer fecal coliform bacteria on toys, diaper-changing pads and chairs in rooms where disposable diapers were used than in rooms where children wore the cloth variety.
Some forms of fecal coliform cause diarrhea, and the greater the fecal coliform contamination, the greater the risk of a diarrhea outbreak.
Jackie Prince, a representative for the Environmental Defense Fund in Washington, said the it was unlikely the study would change her organization's call for an end to use of disposable diapers.
There really has not been a significant problem with infections linked
to cloth diapers in day care centers, she said yesterday.
"The controlling factors are really things like how often is the baby changed?" Does the care giver wash her baby? "Yes, and then give one baby and another" she said.
Pickering said contamination decreased significantly when children in both groups wore clothes in the clothing clothes helped contain the bacteria.
About 55 percent of the toys used by cloth-diapered children were contaminated with bacteria compared to 24 percent of the toys used by youngsters in disposable diapers. None of the children was wearing clothes.
Grady said that relatively few youngsters of diapering age, up to 2½ years, were in licensed day care homes or stay with relatives, she said.
Pickering said his findings would apply to home care only if many toddlers were present and could pass germs to other youngsters.
Astronomers cannot explain object in space
The Associated Press
NEW YORK — Astronomers have found a mysterious object about 100 billion times as massive as the sun and say it is either the largest black hole ever found or a completely new, unexplained phenomenon.
The object's mass is roughly equal to that of all the stars in the Milky Way galaxy. Bland-Hawthorn said.
"The huge mass and its great concentration and darkness are puzzling and unlike any found previ- eral on Earth, and Hawthorne one of the discoverers.
Yet it is compressed into a space 10,000 times smaller.
They reported their findings in April's issue of The Astrophysical Journal.
Astronomers debate the source of that radiation. Some argue that it comes from a collision between two galaxies. Others say that it is emitted by a quasar hidden within a dense cloud of gas and dust.
The scientists were searching an unusual galaxy called NGC 6240 when they discovered the object inside it. NGC 6240 attracted their attention because of its high-level emissions of infrared radiation.
Bland Hawthorn and his colleagues said they were surprised to discover that the galaxy contained not one spinning disk, such as most spiral galaxies. The first disk is similar to the spinning disk at the core of most visible spiral galaxies. But the second disk is quite different.
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