CHILD health experts in the region say immunisation might help to protect babies against cot death.
Paediatricians at Newcastle's Royal Victoria Infirmary analysed the circumstances surrounding more than 470,000 babies born in England between 1993 and 1996.
They talked to 303 sets of parents who had experienced cot death and compared their child's level of vaccination with healthy youngsters.
They found half of cot death victims had started or completed an immunisation programme, compared with two-thirds of surviving babies.
Among children aged three months or over, 79 per cent of cot death victims had been immunised, compared with 93 per cent of surviving children.
The team concluded childhood immunisation might help to protect against cot death.
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