Jessica
I believe you are referring to a paper called "The Ethics of Donor Human
Milk Banking" by Lois Arnold which was published in the journal
"Breastfeeding Medicine" Volume 1, Number 1, 2006.   This paper utilizes a
HYPOTHETICAL case, just as you outlined, to explore the ethical decisions
involved.

I have seen this happen before, that people have heard about this paper, and
in their memories, it has become a REAL case.  It is not.  I sometimes
wonder how much this mistake in recollection has influenced people's
opinions about peer-to-peer milk sharing.

I have a copy of the paper, I can email it to you directly if you like.

Janice Reynolds
Saskatchewan, Canada

 

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Subject: Re: Points of view versus evidence

On the subject of viruses- a couple of years ago at a conference a speaker
alluded to a case of an infant dying of CMV after being nursed by the
mother's sister.  The inference was that the mother and hence baby were CMV
negative, and the aunt was positive.  My memory is that he thought the baby
was directly breastfed by the aunt (not just fed the milk).   I haven't
found anything about this case in the literature - does anyone know if it is
documented?   (Or for that matter, if there is any documented case of
morbidity/mortality due to virus transmission in a noncommercial, nonbank,
milksharing situation?) 

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