10 There is no
animal model of SIDS and it has never been observed to occur naturally in any species other than humans.2 While the standardization of a SIDS diagnosis has been and continues to be elusive and / or inconsistent, it is most often applied to situations in which an otherwise healthy infant between the ages of 8 - 16 weeks, especially, but up to 12 months, dies suddenly and
unexpectedly presumably during its sleep and
upon postmortem examination no apparent internal causal factor (s) explaining the death can be identified.11, 12