Althoiugh I am a little suspicious about whether this can be spread THIRD
hand, even if it was, This pargraph hit me:
"Nevertheless, in mid-May, the wife developed red, tender swelling around
both her nipples. The area blistered, then ulcerated, leaving open sores
around the nipple area. No one, including her doctor, suspected it was a
vaccinia reaction, so she continued breast-feeding until May 29, when it
became too painful.
On the day she stopped breast-feeding, her baby developed a tell-tale
blister on her upper lip, which turned into a pustule and formed a crust.
The next day, she developed a similar lesion on her left check. On June 2,
a pediatrician saw the facial lesions as well as one on her tongue and
diagnosed her with suspected vaccinia. She was transferred to Madigan Army
Medical Center, where she came under Fairchok's care.
No one knows exactly how the transmissions occurred."

If transmission had ALREADY occured, the baby was ALREADY infected and more
than a month had passed since the mother first developed the lesion, WHY
quit now, or at all? I imagine the pain could have been controlled and that
the worst of it was over. Any "damage" (which I doubt, since the vaccinia
is not really Small Pox, but a mild disease called "Cow Pox" which rarely
has many complications) would have already occured, to both mother and
baby. Do the lesions last this long before starting to heal? A month, and
still getting worse? I am suspicious.

Seems a little ridiculous to close the barn door after the horse (or cow,
in this case) had already left.

JMO.

Maybe someone is looking for a settlement or this is simply an other ABM
company  generated " breastfeedi8ng horror" story. (Sorry, it's the Fox
Mulder in me....)

Mary Jozwiak IBCLC, RLC, LLLL, AAPL
Private Practice

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