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Monday, October 09, 2006
KETTERING — A Kettering baby whose death this summer was labeled suspicious by the Montgomery County Coroner's Office died from natural causes, a coroner's report shows.
Ethan Alan Shawen, who was 2 months old when he died Aug. 20 at Children's Medical Center of Dayton, died from meningitis caused by an unknown organism, according to the report released Oct. 4. An autopsy showed no signs of child abuse.
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Meningitis, or inflammation of the outer membranes of the brain and spinal cord, shares similar symptoms with shaken baby syndrome, including swelling of the brain, fever, seizures and vomiting.
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