Marianne -- these questions are more commonplace than you realize!  ILCA has
a lovely hand-out available via link on its home-page, entitled "Influenza
References."  It isn't meant to be exhaustive, but highlights some of the
recent policy statements, and underlying research, about flu, vaccines and
immunities.  This is a nice document to wave around with administrators and
decision-makers who are just now tuning into the fact that BF women can help
keep their babies healthy.  (We here in the USA are still eagerly
[impatiently ....] waiting for the Centers for Disease Control to provide
their promised revision to their Jul 6 statement, which would have hospitals
separate the H1N1-positive mother from her BF'g infant.)
-- 
Liz Brooks JD IBCLC FILCA (ILCA Secy 2005-11)
Wyndmoor, PA, USA

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