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Cytomegalovirus lies dormant in most US adults and is the leading infectious cause of birth defects, but few have heard of it

  • Written by Laura Gibson, Associate Professor of Medicine and of Pediatrics, UMass Chan Medical School
imageCytomegalovirus belongs to the same virus family, _Herpesviridae_, as cold sores and chickenpox.Callista Images/Image Source via Getty Images

“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...

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