"Breastfeeding and the Transmission of HIV"

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"Breastfeeding and the Transmission of HIV"

Lancet (12/24-31/88) Vol. 2, No. 8626/8627, P. 1487
Colebunders, Robert, et al.

Abstract: The child of one of three mother who became HIV-positive from blood transfusions following delivery also became positive after breastfeeding, reports a team of Zairean, Belgian, and U.S. researchers. The group, which conducted the research at the Mama Yemo Hospital in Kinshasa, Zaire, said the mother of the child who seroconverted was infected from a transfusion during neurosurgery 11 months after delivery. Tests conducted after the surgery revealed that one of five units she received was seropositive. The child, who continued to breastfeed until 18 months, was seronegative three months after the surgery, but tested positive four and seven months later. The child did not have any injections, scarifications, or transfusions during the four months after the mother's operation. The researchers note that a wet nurse who died of AIDS appears to have infected a baby during breastfeeding. In an AUstralian study, two of eight babies whose mothers received HIV-infected postpartum transfusions became seropositive. The researchers recommend continued study and the consideration of testing wet nurses and breast milk donors for HIV antibody.
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