I just did a quick CDC search: they do NOT address the issue. My opinion: if it was an issue for a breastfeeding mother / baby, the CDC would have something on it.

Book: Breastfeeding and Diseases by E. Stephen Buescher, MD and Susan W. Hatcher RN, BSN, IBCLC, Hale Publishing, 2008 - does NOT address the issue of HPV. Seek him out and contact him.
Dr Hale's site covers medications; nothing on diseases.

LaTrobe University's Dept of Microbiology doesn't even mention HPV that I could find on a quick search.
<http://www.latrobe.edu.au/microbiology/milk.html>
They have tables of known / reported contaminants and illnesses known to be via breastmilk, and very extensive tables of in vitro, and sometimes in vivo, protective factors in breastmilk. A computer page search did not hit on HPV.

The silence is deafening on your query which indicates to me (my own opinion) that there aren't any reported cases of actual transmission of HPV to a baby via breastmilk, as opposed to the theoretical or logical possibility of transmission.

We have so many good physicians on this list and none have responded on the list so far with any evidence, published or observational, of a problem for baby via it's mother's breastmilk.

Phyllis


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Phyllis Adamson, IBCLC, RLC
Glendale, AZ.
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