Hi, all! We seem to be dancing around this topic and not
answering a question I posed some time ago. Debbie M-H (Missouri)
came very close on July 26  with a quote from the Missouri Bureau
of Communicable Disease Control Policy and Procedure Manual that
"botulism is categorized either as foodborne, *wound*, infant and
unclassified", but she didn't develop the "wound" category.

Let me pose it this way: Is it possible for a lactating woman to
apply honey to bleeding nipples (or C/s incision as mentioned
previous), become infected with *blood-borne* botulism and then
pass the botulism on to the breastfeeding infant via her
*breastmilk* (*not* directly to infant via honey per ora).
Or is there some protective mechanism inherent in BM to protect
against this?
I think that this is an important question for us, and would be
grateful if someone with access to the CDC or the like would work
on this. TIA, Judy K. in Beer Sheva, Israel