I agree, Maria-Olivia. I did a quick review of the medical literature, and it appears that the earliest papers on toxoplasmosis in humans date to 1965, or approximately three years after the birth of Princess Blanche. In other words, it was really not anybody's fault.... It appears that medical science was only beginning to come to terms with the disease in the mid 1960's, and it's very sad indeed to think of all the children (royal and otherwise) who might have been spared, and whose lives could have been fuller, if we had known earlier.
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