2006-12-08 07:54:54 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous in Health ➔ Diseases & Conditions ➔ Infectious Diseases
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.
2006-12-08 08:05:16 · answer #1 · answered by nursej 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
once you're relating issues you have gotten caught...genuinely something. STD-smart, in case you have a breakout, alongside with with Herpes, while being born, your toddler can settlement it and has a extreme risk of going blind. Any ailment you have it fairly is transimittable with the aid of blood, your toddler will probably have or could have a edge results of because of the fact submit to in innovations that's hooked to you interior the path of the umbilical twine and is getting it relatively is food and existence factors from you.
2016-10-05 01:35:05 · answer #2 · answered by lashbrook 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
http://www.doctorndtv.com/faq/detailfaq.asp?id=949
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cytomegalovirus
2006-12-08 08:16:14 · answer #3 · answered by myheartisjames 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Research is an amazing thing.
2006-12-08 08:02:45 · answer #4 · answered by Venice Girl 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋