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Quadros’s research has found that a specific autoantibody blocks the transport of folate from mother to fetus during pregnancy and when present after birth, the infant’s brain.

The birth dose is followed by two other doses often taken in combination with other vaccines.

The current CDC advice is to give the first dose of that vaccine within 24 hours of birth.

“Every person born in the country,” wrote Bates in late November 1862, “is, at the moment of birth, prima facie a citizen…without any reference to race or color, or any other accidental circumstance.”

Months later, Bruce’s girlfriend gave birth, after hiding her pregnancy.