The Air Force Safety Center is a Field Operating Agency with headquarters at Kirtland Air Force Base, N.M.
The Finnish researchers are unsure why the use of a pacifier might lead to an ear infection, but theorized it may have something to do with the change in pressure equilibrium inside the ear caused by the sucking.
Among the causal agents of acute enterocolitis are: 1  bacteria: Salmonella, Shigella, Escherichia coli, Campylobacter etc.; 2  viruses: enteroviruses, rotaviruses, Norwalk virus, adenoviruses; 3  fungi: candidiasis, especially in immunosuppressed patients or who have previously received prolonged antibiotic treatment;