Re: LOST: pregnant women dying

tdciago <tdciago@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> writes:
>So the question is: Why does the mother's body consider the fetus a
>foreign invader?

A fetus *is* a foreign invader. One of the jobs of the placenta is to form
a firewall between the immune systems of the mother and the baby. It's
rare, but mothers having immune responses to their baby is something that
happens outside of lost, and it can be lifethreatening. *
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* PV   something like badgers--something like lizards--and something
       like corkscrews.