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Re: hepatitis C
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Lisa Jones <[log in to unmask]>
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Sun, 21 Mar 1999 17:25:42 EST
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The Breastfeeding Answer Book, page 460, gives references as recent as 1996:
"According to the medical literature to date, the incidence of hepatitis C
infection in breastfed infants is the same as that in artificially fed infants
born to hepatitis C carrier mothers (Gartner 1996)"  There are several other
studies mentioned including one that could be interpreted as "1 in 7" babies
acquired the virus thru breastfeeding- and I noted that it was 1 in a study of
7 infants, not 100 out of 700 or 1000 out of 7000.


Lisa Jones, LLLL in Wellington FL

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