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>>From: "Carlos Gonzalez" <[log in to unmask]>l>
>>Subject: RE: no!no!no!NOOOOOOO!!!!!
>>Date: Wed, 23 Oct 1996 18:06:27 +0100

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>>Hello, it's me again.
>>Would you be so helpful as to post this message in Lactnet for me?
>>
>>Hepatitis C - no danger from breastfeeding
>>
>>For those of you not very fluent in Catalan, there is a recently published
>paper.
>>There were 40 infants, born from hepatitis C carriers, prospectively
>followed for 18
>>months.
>>Of 32 bottlefed babies, 4 became infected
>>Of 8 breastfed babies, 1 became infected.
>>So, the risk associated with breastfeeding is exactly 0.
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>>Roca AM, Fortuny C, Ercilla G, Coll O, Torne A, Jimenez R. Transmissio
>vertical del
>>virus de l'hepatitis C (VHC). Estudi prospectiu en 40 fills de mares VHC
>positives.
>>Pediatr Catalana 1996;56:77-81
>>
>>Best wishes           Carlos Gonzalez
>>