A female vampire bat has adopted an orphaned baby bat and begun nursing it after creating a close social bond with the baby’s mother before she died Source: https://www.newscientist.com/article/2267108-vampire-bat-adopts-orphan-baby-bat-after-untimely-death-of-its-mother/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home…
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Can moms pass COVID-19 immunity to their newborns?
A new study shows that antibodies can cross the placenta and could be protective to the baby. Source: https://www.livescience.com/maternal-coronavirus-antibodies-to-infant.html
Baby Was Infected With Coronavirus In Womb, Study Reports
An anonymous reader quotes a report from The New York Times: Researchers on Tuesday [reported in the journal Nature Communications] strong evidence that the coronavirus can be transmitted from a pregnant woman to a fetus. A baby born in a Paris hospital in March to a mother with Covid-19 tested positive for the virus and developed symptoms of inflammation in his…