
Pregnant women should be more concerned about contracting cytomegalovirus infection than Zika virus in terms of risk to their child having microcephaly, new research suggests.
According to a large population-based cohort study, contracting CMV in pregnancy increases the risk of having a baby with microcephaly seven-fold.



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