{"id":8826,"date":"2021-04-07T10:56:55","date_gmt":"2021-04-07T17:56:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=8826"},"modified":"2021-04-12T10:57:43","modified_gmt":"2021-04-12T17:57:43","slug":"no-evidence-of-infectious-sars-cov-2-in-human-milk-analysis-of-a-cohort-of-110-lactating-women","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2021\/04\/07\/no-evidence-of-infectious-sars-cov-2-in-human-milk-analysis-of-a-cohort-of-110-lactating-women\/","title":{"rendered":"No Evidence of Infectious SARS-CoV-2 in Human Milk Analysis of a Cohort of 110 Lactating Women"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">[Pre-print, not peer-reviewed]<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> A cohort study of lactating individuals found that while SARS-CoV-2 RNA could be found in the breastmilk of some people with recent infection, there was no evidence that it contained infectious virus or that breastfeeding posed a risk of infection to infants. <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Breast milk samples from 110 individuals (65 confirmed positive, 36 with symptoms but without tests, and 9 with symptoms but a negative test) were tested by RT-PCR (285 samples) and\/or viral culture (160 samples). While viral RNA was present in the milk of 7 of 110 (6%) individuals with either a confirmed infection or symptomatic illness, and in 6 of 65 (9%) of individuals with a positive test, live virus was not detected in any culture.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Krogstad et al.\u00a0(Apr 7, 2021). No Evidence of Infectious SARS-CoV-2 in Human Milk Analysis of a Cohort of 110 Lactating Women. Pre-print downloaded Apr 7 from <\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1101\/2021.04.05.21254897\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1101\/2021.04.05.21254897<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Pre-print, not peer-reviewed] A cohort study of lactating individuals found that while SARS-CoV-2 RNA could be found in the breastmilk of some people with recent infection, there was no evidence that it contained infectious virus or that breastfeeding posed a risk of infection to infants. Breast milk samples from 110 individuals (65 confirmed positive, 36&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2021\/04\/07\/no-evidence-of-infectious-sars-cov-2-in-human-milk-analysis-of-a-cohort-of-110-lactating-women\/\">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":[38],"topic":[21],"class_list":["post-8826","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-summary","tag-transmission","topic-transmission"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8826","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=8826"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8826\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8827,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8826\/revisions\/8827"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8826"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8826"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8826"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=8826"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}