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Re: Survival of viruses (esp CMV & HTLV II) with freezing
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Wightsd <[log in to unmask]>
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Sat, 10 Jan 1998 01:31:22 EST
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Jack, Breastmilk-bankers and all:
I was giving a lecture re breastfeeding and infections to a CLC class tonight
and got stumped.  A student had a patient with HTLV II who was told by her MD
to pump, freeze the milk X 24 hrs, then thaw it and feed it to her infant (in
order to kill the virus!).  The student thought that woman may have been on
some kind of study. I have been under the impression that freezing kills WBCs
but not necessarily viruses, and that only pasturization will reliably kill
viruses.  Am I wrong?
Nancy Wight MD, IBCLC
San Diego

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