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<b>CHILD-SEAT - HIDDEN PERIL:</b> A child-seat is indisputably the only way to carry a baby in a car - but now a report has warned of the hidden danger. <i>Image: Shutterstock</i>
<b>CHILD-SEAT - HIDDEN PERIL:</b> A child-seat is indisputably the only way to carry a baby in a car - but now a report has warned of the hidden danger. <i>Image: Shutterstock</i>

HERSHEY, Pensylvania - A study of young-child deaths in devices such as car seats, swings and baby-bouncers has exposed how most were caused by asphyxiation by improper positioning or strangulation in straps.

Particularly dangerous, it claimed, were incorrectly used car child safety-seats - though it emphasised that a child in a correctly adjusted car seat "was in very little danger".

Using these devices as directed and not as a substitute for a crib would reduce the risk of death.

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