{"id":7245,"date":"2020-06-01T12:36:56","date_gmt":"2020-06-01T19:36:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=7245"},"modified":"2021-03-24T12:37:39","modified_gmt":"2021-03-24T19:37:39","slug":"detectable-severe-acute-respiratory-syndrome-coronavirus-2-sars-cov-2-in-human-breast-milk-of-a-mildly-symptomatic-patient-with-coronavirus-disease-2019-covid-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/06\/01\/detectable-severe-acute-respiratory-syndrome-coronavirus-2-sars-cov-2-in-human-breast-milk-of-a-mildly-symptomatic-patient-with-coronavirus-disease-2019-covid-19\/","title":{"rendered":"Detectable Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) in Human Breast Milk of a Mildly Symptomatic Patient with Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19)"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li data-leveltext=\"\uf0b7\" data-font=\"Symbol\" data-listid=\"34\" data-aria-posinset=\"2019\" data-aria-level=\"1\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Tam et al. reported a first case of detectable SARS-CoV-2 RNA from human milk in a\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">forty-year old\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">woman<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">with COVID-19. Despite mild clinical symptoms, this<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0patient\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">had detectable\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">viral RNA<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0in two separate samples\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">of\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">human<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0milk taken ten days apart<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">, which were<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0interspersed with\u00a0a\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">several<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0negative results. The significance of this finding is uncertain as detectable RNA in these samples has not been shown to indicate viable virus nor to demonstrate a risk of infection via breastfeeding.\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233279&quot;:true,&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><i><span data-contrast=\"none\">Tam et al. (June 1, 2020). Detectable Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) in Human Breast Milk of a Mildly Symptomatic Patient with Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19). Clinical Infectious Diseases.\u00a0<\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1093\/cid\/ciaa673\"><span data-contrast=\"none\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1093\/cid\/ciaa673<\/span><\/a><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559685&quot;:720,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tam et al. reported a first case of detectable SARS-CoV-2 RNA from human milk in a\u00a0forty-year old\u00a0woman\u00a0with COVID-19. Despite mild clinical symptoms, this\u00a0patient\u00a0had detectable\u00a0viral RNA\u00a0in two separate samples\u00a0of\u00a0human\u00a0milk taken ten days apart, which were\u00a0interspersed with\u00a0a\u00a0several\u00a0negative results. The significance of this finding is uncertain as detectable RNA in these samples has not been shown to indicate&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/06\/01\/detectable-severe-acute-respiratory-syndrome-coronavirus-2-sars-cov-2-in-human-breast-milk-of-a-mildly-symptomatic-patient-with-coronavirus-disease-2019-covid-19\/\">Read more<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"topic":[21],"class_list":["post-7245","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-summary","topic-transmission"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7245","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7245"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7245\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7246,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7245\/revisions\/7246"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7245"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7245"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=7245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}