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Subject:
Margaret Mead not alive in 1988
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Kathy Dettwyler <[log in to unmask]>
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Date:
Mon, 30 Mar 1998 17:43:07 -0600
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>Edith White posted:
>
>>I don't know if any Lactnetters know that the late Dr. Margaret Mead was
>>one of the first people to say that babies of HIV+ mothers in Third
>>World countries should be formula fed.  In 1988 she urged the infant
>>formula manufacturers to participate in finding a solution to this
>>tragedy.


According to the bronze plaque on my Margaret Mead Award (for my book
Dancing Skeletons), Margaret Mead *died* in 1978.  So it is pretty amazing
that she had an opinion about HIV and AIDS in 1988.

1978 was many years before ANYONE was talking about HIV.  They didn't even
begin testing the US blood supply for HIV until mid-1985.  Perhaps Edith
White could clarify what she meant?
Kathy D.
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