<<and no, I don't have it.  : />>

Good.  I admit I was starting to worry LOL.

<<"What do you think about contamination with breastshields if different
women
are using the same set (boiled, no sterilization) for their pumping
sessions. Is  (Creutzfeldt-Jakob)  heat resistant (say against boiling). "

Does anyone have any experience with this?>>

Well, I have two trains of thought running through my mind on that right now
(perfectly normal for me; I can argue two opposing sides of darn near
anything <g>).  One is that transferring from one mom to another via
residual human milk left on a pump has got to be quite different from eating
a burger that came from a mad cow.

My other thought is this:  the way this spreads from one cow to another is
via the feeding of dead diseased cows to other cows.  This process (I
believe its called rendering) subjects the ground up meat to HIGH HEAT
first, or so I've read.  This heat supposedly kills every possible form of
virus & bacteria, but since this disease is caused by neither of those, but
rather by a prion, even the high heat of the rendering process does not rid
the end product of the disease.  Then its fed to other cows, and now THEY
have it, etc.

So, heat is no friend to us here, IMO.  To my recollection Howard Lyman (the
former-rancher-turned-vegetarian who was sued along with Oprah Winfrey a
while back) said on that very show (the one they were sued for) that the
high heat of rendering does NOT kill these prions.  So I'm not sure
sterilizing breastpump parts would either.  But of course we don't really
know  -we're crossing species here, and I believe certain types of tissue
(central nervous system tissue, for instance) is more perilous than others.
I haven't seen people discuss this disease in terms of mammalian milk, only
of meat.

Lyman has a website, and I believe he has the transcript on it, for those
that are interested......
Regina Roig Lane BS IBCLC for Miami-Dade County WIC

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