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Common Virus Can Cause Devastating Birth Defects

By: Patti Neighmond

When Kathleen Muldoon had her second child everything was going smoothly. The delivery was short, the baby’s APGAR score was good and he was a healthy weight.

“Everyone said he was amazing,” says Muldoon.

But when a doctor noticed that Gideon was jaundiced, everything changed. Nurses put him under a fluorescent light to treat the problem. But it didn’t work. Instead, he developed a red rash all over his body. Blood work indicated newborn Gideon was infected with a virus Muldoon had never heard of: Cytomegalovirus or CMV – a virus that can cause severe birth defects. [Read more…]

Source: NPR

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