Dear Friends:

> HIV/AIDS vs. Mad Cow Disease
>
>  >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.

Haven't they forgotten that banked human milk is pasteurized, which kills
HIV, even if the screening by history and screening by serology didn't work?
Human milk is the safest banked tissue to receive.....far safer than blood or
sperm. Can't pasteurize blood, it becomes a useless scab. Can't pasteurize
sperms because the little darlings roll over, explode, and die.
    Warmly,
Nikki Lee RN, MSN, Mother of 2, IBCLC, CIMI
craniosacral therapy practitioner
Elkins Park (a suburb of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; northeastern USA)
supporter of the WHO Code and the Mother Friendly Childbirth Initiative

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