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(Panicky) Spirit of '76 In her article on swine flu, Amanda Ripley ignores the U.S. government's ambitious campaign to vaccinate the country against swine flu during the 1976 scare [Oct. 5]. This debacle resulted in decades of study on the wisdom of mass-vaccination campaigns and the ultimatum from...
Rossi’s group concluded that increased alcohol consumption in both men and women strongly decreased the likelihood of a woman’s egg being successfully fertilized.
The effects of alcohol consumption on successful pregnancy were most pronounced in women who drink four units of white wine per week and in men who drink the same amount of beer.
According to Rossi, although her research team discovered a correlation between alcohol consumption and decreased probability of pregnancy through IVF, they are still unclear about what leads to this decreased likelihood.
Though it is no surprise that alcohol consumption during pregnancy has a detrimental impact on fetal development, Rossi said she could not yet comment on the different effects alcohol has on women impregnated through in vitro versus women impregnated through sexual intercourse.