Cytomegalovirus (CMV) recently caused a 2-month-old girl in Pennsylvania to suffer severe hearing loss after it was passed to ...

Compared to later stages of pregnancy, CMV infection in the first trimester carries the highest risk of stillbirth or severe effects when the immune system and organs like the brain are developing.

GET IT ON G E T I T O N In the U.S., nearly one in three children are already infected with cytomegalovirus or commonly known as CMV, by age five. The CDC said, over half of adults have been ...

A CMV infection is particularly devastating for a fetus, ... “I don’t really care if the baby has CMV if nine out of 10 of them are going to have absolutely no long-term ramifications. ...

Congenital Cytomegalovirus or CMV is sometimes called America’s ‘Zika’. Babies contract the virus in the womb, and the symptoms are similar, but CMV is much more common. Forty thousand ...

Pregnant women can pass an "active" CMV infection onto their unborn baby. CMV may sometimes cycle between an active and dormant stage, though in healthy people it usually stays dormant, according ...

"We think that a baby [who is] born with CMV infection is at a higher risk for developmental consequences, including developmental delay, learning disorders," said Schleiss. "The most important ...

Other mums with CMV babies have also expressed concerns childcare centres aren’t doing enough to warn pregnant mothers of the risk of infection.

(WNDU) - Nearly one in three children are already infected with cytomegalovirus by age five. The CDC says over half of adults have been infected with CMV by age 40. Most people with CMV infection ...

Most of us never realize we have it, but a pregnant person who has an active infection with CMV can pass it on to the baby. When the doctors screened Muldoon, they found that her immune system had ...

However, when CMV occurs during a woman’s pregnancy, the baby can become infected before birth. CMV infection before birth is known as “congenit 1 weather alerts 1 closings/delays ...