Oh, I feel so foolish! I live just outside of Washington DC, and get the
Washington Post. I cut this article out of the paper and meant to save
it. ItIt was on the countertop, however, and that afternoon I was cooking
homemade spaghetti sauce and the article got smeared with sauce. It was
still readable, however, and it never occurred to me that folks on Lacnet
might like to see a copy.

Anyway, Jim has nicely quoted pertinent parts of the article, but the
entire article was really an inspiration. It really presented human milk
as a magical fluid and elixir of life!

--
Marie Biancuzzo, RN MS                      Perinatal Nurse Consultant
PO Box 1562                                        Phone: 703-758-0092
Herndon, Virginia 22070-1562     email: [log in to unmask]


On Wed, 6 Sep 1995, James Akre wrote:

>           Marsha Walker came through nicely with the citation for
>           Anders Hakansson's work.  He is a doctoral student at Lund
>           University in Sweden and it would certainly be nice if he
>           joined the Lactnet!  What I always find interesting is when
>           news like that from Lund hits the non-medical press, and
>           thus has a greater potential for seeping into the popular
>           consciousness.  The Washington Post, health
>           section, of 22 August 1995 carried a 70-line,
>           one-column-width piece entitled <Mother's milk carries
>           weapon against cancer>, which led with the not-so-rhetorical
>           <Is there anything that mother's milk can't do?>.  This
>           article was picked up by the International Herald Tribune
>           (weekly science page) on 24 August, in shorter form.  The
>           same space continued with a brief account of <A comeback for
>           milk banks>, also originally appearing in the Washington
>           Post, but on 22 August 1995.  The highly abridged IHT
>           version closes by saying <Human-milk banking, after nearly
>           being wiped out by the threat of AIDS, is having a comeback
>           as safety measures have reduced fears of viral infection.
>           Nationally, more than 1000 infants will receive donor milk
>           from seven milk banks this year, up from a low of 600 in
>           1989.>  By comparison, the full article notes that <By the
>           mid-1980s ... milk-banking ... was thriving across the
>           United States;  27 banks dispensed 260,000 ounces of breast
>           milk to about 1500 babies in 1984.> Please e-mail me if you
>           would like copies of the articles.
>
>           Jim Akre
>           Technical Officer, Nutrition
>           World Health Organization
>           Geneva, Switzerland
>           [log in to unmask]
>