There's also a heavy editorial slant there to heighten the emotional tension, especially the quote 'We are essentially stateless'. If you read the article all the way through it seems as if they just have to wait for the result of the DNA test and all is good.
Also, I presume they went all the way down to the Caribbean to ensure that the water the baby was born into was close to human temperature? From personal experience, I got infected by an antibiotic resistant strain of staph (IIRC) in Florida exactly because the water temperature allows such microorganisms to survive without a human host. Supposedly the sea water in Miami sustains a near permanent presence of bacteria that normally should only infect by direct contact between humans. So yeah, give the kid a natural birth and and you also expose the kid and the mother to medieval levels of health risk.
There's also a heavy editorial slant there to heighten the emotional tension, especially the quote 'We are essentially stateless'. If you read the article all the way through it seems as if they just have to wait for the result of the DNA test and all is good.
Also, I presume they went all the way down to the Caribbean to ensure that the water the baby was born into was close to human temperature? From personal experience, I got infected by an antibiotic resistant strain of staph (IIRC) in Florida exactly because the water temperature allows such microorganisms to survive without a human host. Supposedly the sea water in Miami sustains a near permanent presence of bacteria that normally should only infect by direct contact between humans. So yeah, give the kid a natural birth and and you also expose the kid and the mother to medieval levels of health risk.