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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 ghost of “Beloved” is psychological, picking apart Sethe’s traumatic experience of slavery and her guilt from murdering her infant.

The country had a reputation as a marketplace where local middlemen paid impoverished mothers to hand over their infants.

Dr Andrew Lee, regional deputy director of the UK Health Security Agency in Yorkshire and the Humber, said this was because infants were most at risk of contracting the illness.

Renowned as a queen of literary horror — her stories brim with ghosts, werewolves, zombie infants — here she reveals a realist side, journalistic yet intimate.