One in 200 infants are born with congenital CMV but only one in five may be sick at birth or develop health issues.

CMV belongs to the same virus family as cold sores and chickenpox and, like those viruses, lives in the body for life. Most children and adults experience very mild or even no symptoms with their ...

The C in TORCH stands for CMV — cytomegalovirus, a type of herpesvirus that infects between 50% and 85% of adults in the U.S. and almost all adults in other parts of the world.

The condition is associated with congenital CMV. During her pregnancy, Saunders was raising her toddler and ran a day care center in her Maryland home, where she could have been exposed to the virus.

She had never heard of it. She was stunned to find out that CMV — or cytomegalovirus — was a common virus, highly contagious and found in the saliva of one in three toddlers.

A CMV infection is particularly devastating for a fetus, because the virus has a proclivity for infecting neural stem cells. One study found CMV increased the risk of stillbirth by more than eight ...

An experimental mRNA vaccine against human cytomegalovirus (CMV), a common virus that can infect babies during pregnancy, elicited some of the most promising immune responses to date of any CMV ...

Look at the people around you. Over half of the people you see have the cytomegalovirus. Nearly 60 percent of the American population has the CMV virus, which is transmitted through saliva or ...

Most people with CMV don't get any symptoms and may not even be aware they have the virus at all. A healthy person's immune system usually keeps the virus from causing illness, the CDC states.

CMV is a common virus that infects people of all ages but often goes unnoticed. But when a pregnant person contracts CMV, about 1 in 3 will pass it to her unborn baby.

Unlike Zika which is transmitted by mosquitos, CMV is passed from person to person by contact with bodily fluids. Although the virus typically causes mild symptoms in children and adults, it can ...

Most of us never realize we have it, but a pregnant person who has an active infection with CMV can pass it on to the baby. When the doctors screened Muldoon, they found that her immune system had ...