Study: Infant health not dogged by pets
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Fido the dog and Ginger the cat need not worry about being replaced by a new baby: in fact, they could be helping parents raise healthier children.
A new study finds that children who lived with dogs or cats during their first year of life got sick less frequently than kids from pet-free zones. The study, published yesterday in the journal Pediatrics, provides evidence for the counterintuitive...
