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[–] [email protected] 6 points 7 months ago (1 children)

No, this isn’t like immunity that a mother’s breast milk can confer to an infant (which is provided through antibodies). What they found in the milk is live, active virus. Trying to get immunity from that would be like trying to get immunity to HIV by drinking the breast milk of someone who’s HIV+.