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La Trobe University
Department of Microbiology

    Department of Microbiology
    La Trobe University
    Victoria 3086
    AUSTRALIA
    Tel: +61 3 9479-1114
    Fax: +61 3 9479-1222
    Email: microbiology
    @latrobe.edu.au

Human milk and viruses in the news

Headline: Breast milk fear on baby hepatitis

  • Herald-Sun, 15 July, 1996
  • Just because a mother and infant have the same virus infection, this does not mean that the milk is a source of the virus. This requires extensive epidemiological and other studies, e.g. hepatitis B which appears in milk but is not transmitted through the milk

    Headline: Sitter who breastfed
	    forced into blood tests

  • The Age, 29 October 1996


  • Headline: Breast milk
	    mix-up scare

  • Herald-Sun, 18 April 1997
  • As no evidence indicates one feed of milk will transmit viruses, it is most unlikely that any was was transmitted in either of the above cases.