Hi Janice,
I do believe though that the paper states that while the case is an amalgam that each element comes from an actual case- so I presume  that a premature infant did contract CMV and die as a result of ingesting donor milk that had not bee frozen for a sufficient length of time. This sort of scenario is why organisations like hospitals need policies for dealing with peer-to-peer donations because otherwise it happens without the assistance of health professionals who know what sort of precautions might be necessary in an individual case. 
Karleen Gribble
Australia

On 15/05/2012, at 6:25 AM, Janice Reynolds wrote:

> 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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> 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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