Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... WHEAT RIDGE — When Megan Wiedel was pregnant with her second child, she did just as her doctor told her to. No raw fish. No soft cheeses. No lunch meat. All ...

Laura Gibson is an associate professor of medicine and of pediatrics at UMass Chan Medical School. CMV belongs to the same virus family as cold sores and chickenpox and, like those viruses, lives in ...

Laura Sweet had no idea that she had contracted a virus that would leave her daughter, Jane, deaf by her first birthday. During her second pregnancy, doctors had warned her against alcohol and ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... CHICAGO — It’s a common, usually harmless virus. But in a rare, unlucky set of circumstances, it can be devastating to the unborn. Brain damage, deafness and ...

Nara Fry is happiest when moving to the beat of music. The seven-year-old loves nothing more than her dance or gymnastics ...

Federal data indicate that over half the US population aged 6-46 years is infected with cytomegalovirus (CMV), typically spread through bodily fluids. Most people have mild or no negative effects from ...

“Why didn’t anyone tell me about this virus?” is a frequent response I hear from parents upon learning their newborn is infected with cytomegalovirus or CMV. Although more than half of the U.S.

In August 2019, when Corey Clem was pregnant with her daughter, she caught a cold with a “pretty bad cough,” she told TODAY. She visited her doctor to make sure everything was OK and received a ...

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has advised people to be wary of cytomegalovirus (CMV) during the holiday season. CMV is a common virus for people of all ages that is usually ...

Congenital cytomegalovirus (CMV) infection and mutation of the gap junction β-2 (GJB2) gene are important causes of sensorineural hearing loss (SNHL). This study aims to determine if congenital CMV ...

Human cytomegalovirus (HCMV) is a ubiquitous member of the Betaherpesvirinae that infects the majority of the human population. Although primary infection is often asymptomatic in immunocompetent ...