英專家：網購人奶風險多
Buying human breast milk online poses serious health risk, say experts
A growing market in online sales of often contaminated human breast milk – fuelled in part by bodybuilders and adults with a baby fetish – poses a serious risk to public health, according to experts.
專家表示,不斷擴大的人奶網絡銷售市場對公共健康造成嚴重威脅.這一市場多由健美愛好者和有戀嬰癖的成年人催生,而網上售賣的人奶多數已被污染.
Researchers from the University of London's school of medicine and dentistry were so alarmed by their initial findings that they wrote an editorial in the British Medical Journal to warn of the dangers of buying breast milk online before their study was completed. The editorial says breast milk sold online should be screened for diseases such as hepatitis, HIV and syphilis.
倫敦大學醫學和牙科學院的研究人員為他們初步的調查結果所震驚,因此在研究完成之前,他們先在《英國醫學雜志》上發表了一篇社論,警示大家網購人奶的危險.他們在社論中寫到,網上銷售的人奶應該接受肝炎,艾滋病毒和梅毒等病毒篩查.
Lead author Dr Sarah Steele said she feared that babies would die from unscreened milk sold online if the market was not regulated. In one of the studies she cited, more than 90% of breast milk purchased online was found to have bacterial growth. Some of the sellers interviewed included intravenous drug users.
主筆薩拉·斯蒂爾表示,她擔心,如果這個市場不受監管,將會有孩子會因為未經病毒篩查的網購人奶而死亡.她引用的一項研究顯示,網購的人奶中有90%以上都發現有細菌滋生.有些受訪的人奶賣家還是靜脈注射吸毒者.
Unregulated websites selling breast milk attract tens of thousand of users in theUS, the research found. One site reported growing by 800 users each month. It also reported an emerging market in theUKon specialist sites as well as general retail sites including Gumtree and Craigslist. Premium prices of up $4 (£2.70) per fluid ounce (30ml) are offered by mothers who purport to eat only organic or vegan food, or can boast having "fat, chubby babies", the researchers found.
調查發現,在美國,不受監管的人奶售賣網站吸引了數萬用戶.有網站據稱每月增長800名用戶.此外,調查也發現英國的專業網站和普通零售網站,如 Gumtree和Craigslist等,也開始成為網購人奶的新興市場.研究人員發現,優質的人奶的價格高達每盎司（30毫升）4美元,供應者聲稱只吃有機食品或素食,也有人吹噓自己有"胖嘟嘟的嬰兒".
