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From: GERRI@IBM.COM (Gerri Oppedisano)
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Subject: AIDS from breast milk to babies
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Date: 9 Aug 90 19:32:50 GMT
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>I learned recently that babies have been infected with HIV from
>infected mothers' breast milk.  But we were told it's due to
>the *large* quantity of the milk that is consumed (so this wouldn't
>be confused with infection from kissing, etc., which simply isn't true).

Uhmm.. This may seem like a stupid question but since babies have shared
everything with their mothers how can it be determined that a baby was
infected specifically by breast milk and not blood from the mother??

gerri