Experts have warned that a growing online craze for breast milk poses serious health risks and unpasteurised breast milk can expose consumers to infectious diseases, including hepatitis, HIV and syphilis. -- ST FILE PHOTO.
LONDON (REUTERS) - A growing online craze among some fitness communities, fetishists and chronic disease sufferers for buying and drinking human breast milk poses serious health risks, British experts said on Thursday.
Writing in the Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine, specialists said there was little evidence to support claims that the milk - traded via websites in a lucrative market for adult buyers - is some kind of super food that can boost health and fitness and ward off disease.
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