51.   Of infants who acquire HIV from their mothers, about one-third get the virus through breast milk.

52.   Oils that penetrate the skin can get into breast milk.

53.   Over the years, tests conducted by Vietnamese and foreign researchers in certain localities here have documented high levels of contamination of breast milk and blood.

54.   Other research has shown that breast milk helps protect babies against illnesses, including ear infections, allergies, vomiting, diarrhea, pneumonia and meningitis.

55.   Patients who test HIV positive will be offered nevirapine and a six-month supply of free baby formula since breast milk can also carry the virus.

56.   PCB levels, for example, have been found to be five times higher in the breast milk of Eskimos in northern Quebec than in mothers in southern Canada.

57.   Pediatric experts, including those who are staunch advocates of breast-feeding, emphasize that women who give their babies formula instead of breast milk should not feel guilty.

58.   Pregnant women who are infected with hepatitis C sometimes pass the infection to their fetuses, but it is not known to be transmitted through breast milk.

59.   Recent research indicates that breast milk reduces the risks of allergies and upper respiratory infections in children and gives them a slight edge in intelligence.

60.   She and her group had studied the nature and function of epithelial cells, the gut-lining cells that come into contact with breast milk in nursing infants.