Jeanette,  I am assuming that the study you mentioned, "Effects of Lipolysis
or Heat Treatment on HIV-1 Provirus in Breast Milk," by Chantry, Morrison, et
al. is not about cold temperature as a treatment for "supposed" hiv in
breastmilk.  And yet what the CDC site suggests is that hiv is destroyed by
cold temperatures.  And it isn't the only time I have seen this suggested.  I
have been told by various medical people that hiv is actually a very fragile
virus in comparison to other viruses.

My question to everyone on this list is:  If what the CDC suggests is
accurate (about cold temperatures destroying hiv), then many of the studies
which used frozen breastmilk are made questionable.  The Semba et al.
mastitis and hiv study used 2 year old frozen breastmilk. Many other studies
become questionable because they froze and stored breastmilk from studies
they did in Africa and shipped to US labs.

So what were they seeing in their microscopes?  HIV? This would mean that the
method of testing for hiv is very questionable.  I have discussed in previous
posts that the tests for hiv are highly inaccurate.  And again there are some
scientists who believe that hiv has never been isolated.  Coupled with the
fact that the "inventor" of these test kits, Dr. Robert Gallo, became a
millionaire from his "invention."  And that his supposed discovery has been
shadowed by allegations that he did not truly discovery the virus (that he
took the virus from a French scientist and "doctored" his papers).

One of the dreadful thinks about a diagnosis of hiv is that an assumption is
made that its diagnosis is a death sentence.  But over the years, we are
beginning to see people who are healthy and surviving this diagnosis (and
they aren't the ones who are taking AZT-a DNA chain terminator).  And this
should give us reason to be hopeful.  When you destroy hope, you ultimately
destroy a person's will to live.  We really need to rethink this whole
hiv=aids=death mentality.  Valerie W. McClain, IBCLC

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