Cytomegalovirus — Silent infections with high-yield Step 1 relevance

June is CMV Awareness Month. Thank you @Jess | Medical Mama for raising awareness of congenital cytomegalovirus (also known as CMV). CMV is the most common infection passed from pregnant people to babies during pregnancy. One in 3 pregnant people passes the infection on to their babies. If you have CMV during pregnancy, the virus in your blood can pass through the placenta to your baby. When a baby gets CMV during pregnancy, it’s called congenital CMV (also known as cCMV). Congenital means that

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