On Saturday, Feb 22, 2003, at 06:24 Australia/Perth, frailhet wrote:
> We have a mother (farmer) who is pregnant near term and has been
> diagnosed
> with Q fever and seropositive for chlamydia pneumoniae. The specialist
> has
> forbidden her to breastfeed. She has breasfed a long time her 2 other
> children, and would like to breastfeed her third child.
>
> Has someone datas about this illness ? Have found that Q fever can be
> transmitted in milk. Chlamydia must probably been mostly transmitted by
> aerian way.

Here's some information from Arch Int Med:
http://archinte.ama-assn.org/issues/v162n6/ffull/ioi10176.html
which says that Coxiella has been isolated from the milk of infected
women in several studies, so it sounds like the specialist isn't
completely off base. I wonder whether she could pump and dump until she
was adequately treated?

This veterinary page confirms that milk is a mode of transmission in
other mammals also:
" Infection can occur in humans and animals through contact with
infected animals or animal products and ingestion of raw milk,
reproductive discharges or placentas."
http://www.vetmed.iastate.edu/services/institutes/iicab/fad/outlines/
qfeveroutline.html

Ingestion of contaminated unpasteurised animal milk is the commonest
way for humans to catch the disease, according to the CDC:
http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/dvrd/qfever/

Lara

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