The eclipse and babies' conception
 
 

A clip was published by Yahoo! and could be found at the following address: http://dailynews.yahoo.com/headlines/od/story.html?s=v/nm/19981118/

It said mainly:

Women in Cornwall are being warned not to get pregnant this month in case they end up giving birth in the middle of next year's solar eclipse. Doctors fear there will be so many people in the southwestern English county next August to watch the rare total eclipse that women in labor will not be able to get to the hospital through the traffic-clogged roads. As many as two million people are expected to descend on the region in nine months' time for the best and longest view of the eclipse -- the first to be seen in Britain since 1927. The warning to avoid August births was issued by the Local Medical Committee of Cornwall, which represents general practitioners in the area, in a newsletter for doctors under its ``Eclipse health tip of the month.'' ``We don't want to pour cold water on things, but people should realize that they could be very vulnerable,'' said the committee's spokeswoman, Rosalind Winter. Many doctors are reported to have pinned the newsletter up in their offices.

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