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To: BBell

Try this one Cytomegalovirus Infection
https://rarediseases.org/rare-diseases/cytomegalovirus-infection/

It acts like the flu in the adult, to the unborn it is deadly. My son lived 33 days never left the hospital. His dad brought it back from Nam passed it to me. It’s in the infectious hand disease book, but he was never isolated. We are talking 44 yrs ago. It still exist. No treatment, no cure. Never will be, it’s to rare to invest Big Pharma’s money in a rare disease.


17 posted on 03/09/2017 7:18:48 AM PST by GailA (Ret. SCPO wife: suck it up buttercups it's President Donald Trump! DRAIN THE SWAMP)
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To: GailA
I clicked the link. It's not so rare any more. I had never heard of it and for all I know I may have it or had it.

Cytomegalovirus infection (CMV) is a viral infection that rarely causes obvious illness. The virus that causes CMV is part of the herpes virus family and, like other herpes viruses, may become dormant for a period of time and then be reactivated. CMV affects young children mainly, but it is estimated that by age 30 in the United States, half of all adults are, or have been, infected. The virus can pass from an infected, pregnant mother to her child through the shared blood supply (umbilical cord).

Cytomegalovirus infection has increased in the United States in recent years, possibly because of the increased use of daycare facilities. Recent studies of the percent of children with CMV virus in daycare facilities compared to the percent of children with CMV who are cared for at home found that about 60% of the children in daycare facilities have CMV compared to only 20% of the children cared for at home. If a woman is infected during pregnancy, fetal infections known as cytomegalic inclusion disease (CID) can occur.

According to the American Academy of Pediatrics, eighty-seven percent of children with CID develop complications. Thirty-one percent have serious sensorineural hearing loss, and sixty-two percent have some degree of mental retardation.

Perinatal CMV infection is common. It occurs in eight to thirteen percent of healthy newborns in the United States, and fourteen to eighteen percent of sick or premature infants. Healthy full-term infants rarely have symptoms and are at lesser risk of long-term effects. In contrast, symptoms are common in premature and sick full-term infants and may include pneumonia, hepatitis, hemolytic anemia, thrombocytopenia, and fever.

19 posted on 03/09/2017 5:12:47 PM PST by BBell (calm down and eat your sandwiches)
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