Here's an article of interest from Medscape's Pediatrics MedPulse,
07-Jan-00.
Headline:  Sin Nombre Hantavirus Not Transmitted Through Placenta Or Breast
Milk
It is reported thru Reuters Health and quotes two reports in the Dec'99
issue of Clinical Infectious Diseases.

"Sin Nombre" translates to "without name" or "no-name".  It's called SNV for
short.  I copied the summary of the 2nd of the 2 reports in this article:

>In the second report, Dr. Brian Hjelle and colleagues at the University of
>New Mexico, in Albuquerque, present the case of a 32-year-old woman who had
>been breast-feeding her 3-week-old infant before she was found to have been
>infected with SNV. The breast-feeding occurred during the incubation period
>of hantavirus cardiopulmonary syndrome, which the authors suggest presented
>an unusually high possibility of perinatal transmission.
>
>Analysis of samples of blood and breast milk taken from the mother
>confirmed the presence of SNV RNA as well as neutralizing antibodies.
>However, neither SNV RNA nor antibodies were found in the infant's blood.
>
>"[T]he probable intake of [Sin Nombre] virus-contaminated breast milk did
>not cause infection in the infant, nor were detectable maternal antibodies
>passed to the infant," Dr. Hjelle and colleagues conclude.
>
>Clin Infect Dis 1999;29:1538-1544,1577-1579.

http://pediatrics.medscape.com/reuters/prof/2000/01/01.06/cl01060c.html

Phyllis Adamson, BA, IBCLC
Private Practice - Glendale, AZ
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