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Diet is something the UN believes might be affecting the health of some in the Gaza Strip, particularly pregnant women and children.
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Certain fish are known to build up mercury in their meat, and these should be avoided, particularly by pregnant women.
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Several areas have used financial incentives to get people to give up smoking - particularly among pregnant women and new mothers.
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Swine flu has been shown to hit young people and pregnant women particularly hard.
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This would seem to me to be particularly important in a drug for pregnant women.
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And the finding is particularly pertinent because existing dietary advice to pregnant women, at least in America, is that they should limit their consumption of seafood in order to avoid exposing their fetuses to trace amounts of brain-damaging methyl mercury.
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Pregnant women and their babies are particularly vulnerable to malaria.
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However, because of this finding, it would be better if for the moment women who knew they were pregnant avoided these drugs, particularly as there are effective alternatives such as paracetemol.
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