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Kathy Dettwyler <[log in to unmask]>
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Tue, 20 Jun 2000 21:15:00 -0500
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>Since these resulting produced materials are pooled or are produced from
>pooled human milk, there is a danger that the resulting produced and
>recovered human milk proteins, including the host resistance factors could
>contain HIV if one of the contributors to the pooled human milk or the pooled
>human milk proteins had AIDS or was injected with HIV. This is not a
>reasonable possibility when the human milk proteins, including the so-called
>host resistance factors, are produced as recombinant human milk proteins or
>recombinant host resistance factors employing genetic engineering techniques.

Isn't it possible that these recombinant DNA produced milk from genetically
engineered cows could be contaminated with the prions that cause bovine
spongiform encephalitis (also known as Mad Cow disease, and in humans as
Kreutzfeld-Jacob disease)?  It's a toss up whether you want your child to be
infected with AIDS or K-J disease.  They're both fatal.

Kathy

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