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In a message dated 2.14.03 11:01:08 AM, Valerie writes:
> I find it very difficult in the light of how unreliable this testing is and
> the confusion of maternal antibodies in the infant's bloodstream to believe
> that we have the evidence to believe that breastfeeding is one of the
> routes
> of hiv transmission. The case that was brought up on this list as the
> first
> documented case of hiv transmission through breastfeeding must be the case
> of
> Elizabeth and Ariel Glasser. I believe there is grounds to believe that it
> was blood transfusions, not breastfeeding, that caused that hiv
> transmission.
>
The mother received a transfusion but I don't remember hearing that the baby
did as well, is this true?
Lynn Shea Rn,Bsn,Ibclc
Franklin,Massachusetts
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