Abstract:Background: Immunological protection against novel mucosal pathogens is crucial to us as our immunity is unable to effectively defend against specific pathogens without previous immune encounters, as experienced in the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic. However, a nursing neonate is protected from many novel infections by exclusive human milk feeding despite having a naïve immune system without much previous pathogen exposure. It is observed that SARS-CoV-2 is not transmitted to the nursing infant through human milk and tha… Show more
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