Alabama Child Breaks Record for Most Premature Infant to Survive

Alabama Child Breaks Record for Most Premature Infant to Survive
University of Alabama at Burmingham Hospital building in March 2017. Mx. Granger, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons
Christopher Burroughs
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An Alabama boy was announced on Wednesday as the world’s most premature infant to survive, according to Guinness World Records.

Curtis Means, now 16 months old, was born nearly 19 weeks early on July 5, 2020, at UAB Hospital at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. His survival after being born at just 132 days is now a world record.