Dear Valerie

<<< My question to everyone on this list is:  If what the CDC suggests is
accurate (about cold temperatures destroying hiv), then many of the studies
which used frozen breastmilk are made questionable.  The Semba et al.
mastitis and hiv study used 2 year old frozen breastmilk. Many other studies
become questionable because they froze and stored breastmilk from studies
they did in Africa and shipped to US labs.
So what were they seeing in their microscopes?  HIV? This would mean that
the
method of testing for hiv is very questionable. >>>

Seems to me a VERY VALUABLE point, and one I has also lots of questions
about it. Freezing destroys HTLV, and it would be very interesting to REALLY
test wether freezing milk kills HIV ...

Francoise Railhet
Manager of the LLL France Medical Associates Program
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