Jodine wrote, "Did I get this right? Does anyone else think this is a big
leap for the CDC
to be making, or is it truly unlikely that those antibodies came from the
breastmilk?"

Least anyone on this list forget (I won't let you'all forget) back in 1985
the CDC did another giant leap of "rational" thinking in regard to hiv and
breastfeeding. Based on two letters to the editor to the editor of the Lancet
and a total of 4 cases (Thiry et al., and Zieglar et al.), a decision was
made to discourage breastfeeding in hiv positive women.  These were letters
not studies!!  So, I do not believe that the CDC has changed its mode of
thinking in regard to breastfeeding--guilty until proven innocent.

It is quite remarkable that there are over 100 patents in regard to human
milk components (mostly recombinants) to treat and inactivate the hiv virus.
Thus we have drugs, vaccines on the market or going to market based on what
certain human milk components can do to protect the body from this virus.
One dairy company in the Netherlands implies through their web site that the
use of the additive,lactoferrin, in infant formula is protective against hiv.

In the USA,  we discourage breastfeeding in hiv positive mothers to the point
where some women have been threatened with child protective services if they
make the "choice" of breastfeeding.  Which makes me wonder about the word,
choice.  Do we make a choice to lactate?  How does one make a choice to not
have your body function?  Isn't that called a handicap?

So basicly, what the CDC has done in the past and is currently doing is
handicapping many women and babies based on fears of transmission and not
based on health outcomes.  Where are the announcements from the CDC when
babies die from enterobacter sakazakii caused by contaminated infant formula?
 We have powdered infant formula that transmits a bacteria that kills and
maims infants but no one is told to stop using infant formula and breastfeed.
 With West Nile virus that is supposedly transmitted by breastmilk, we still
have a thriving, alive baby and breastfeeding is stopped.  Talk about the
cards stacked against ya.....
 Valerie W. McClain, IBCLC













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