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MP has joined forces with two Rotherham mums who lost their sons in unexplained
circumstances to call for more research to be carried out.
Linda
McAvan, one of the Yorkshire and Humberside MEPs is asking the World
Health Organisations to change the way it records cases of either cot
death or so-called Sudden Adult Death Syndrome.
Ms
McAvan says there is no international standard for recording such deaths
at the moment and as a result, researchers are not able to build up an
accurate picture.
Official
figures suggest there are between four and eight explained deaths each
week in the UK alone although campaigners fear the real figure could be
much higher.
At
the launch of her campaign outside Rotherham Town Hall she was joined by
Jean Johnson and Julie Carder, whose sons died from Sudden Adult Death
Syndrome and the Mayor and Mayoress of Rotherham, Cllr and Mrs Richard
Russell.
Ms
McAvan added:
