What is CYTOMEGALOVIRUS and how does it affect pregnancy?

This is a virus in the same family as the herpes virus, chickenpox etc, it is spread by person to person contact, body fluids, pregnant mother to unborn baby, breast feeding etc.

This can affect the baby as it can be passed on though the mother most infected newborn babies don't have any symptoms from birth, but these can develop in the infant years this can be mental and development problems and visual and hearing problems, very rarely the baby can be born with a life threatening infection, the children who get infected after birth have few if any symptoms or complications if symptoms do appear these could be lung problems, difficulty gaining weight, swollen glands, liver or blood problems.

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