To the Editor.

In his commentary in the January 1997 issue of Pediatrics,¹ Dr Bergman stated his concern that the much-publicized conviction of Waneta Hoyt for causing the deaths of her five children, deaths previously attributed to the sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS), might provoke a "return to the aura of suspicion that surrounded SIDS deaths in the past." We agree, but still believe that information excluding the possibility of child abuse should have been provided for the cases reported in Pediatrics electronic pages of the same month under the title "Environmental Risk Factors Associated with Pediatric Idiopathic Pulmonary Hemorrhage and Hemosiderosis in a Cleveland Community."² In that article, Montana and colleagues² describe the epidemiologic investigation of a cluster of 10 infants who during 1993 to 1994 had illnesses of sudden onset at home with evidence of acute pulmonary hemorrhage that was confirmed . . . [Full Text of this Article]