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

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.

Long before the coronavirus pandemic, Kathleen Muldoon knew what it felt like to have her life changed by a virus. In 2013, Muldoon, now an associate professor at Midwestern University’s medical ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

What is CMV? CMV stands for cytomegalovirus. It’s such common virus that half of all adults have had it by the time they turn 40, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

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

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 ...

The story should stop there, because the virus needs a special key to move past the centrosome. But that’s where Smith made his discovery: herpes is so specialized to get into our nervous system ...