Cytomegalovirus (CMV) recently caused a 2-month-old girl in Pennsylvania to suffer severe hearing loss after it was passed to her in the womb. While the virus can exist in a person for life without ...

Federal data indicate that over half the US population aged 6-46 years is infected with cytomegalovirus (CMV), typically spread through bodily fluids. Most people have mild or no negative effects from ...

New York is now screening all newborns for congenital Cytomegalovirus to improve access to early treatments for the viral infection that can cause hearing and vision loss, seizures and intellectual ...

June is Cytomegalovirus (CMV) Awareness Month, and many parents have never even heard of it. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, CMV is the leading infectious cause of birth ...

A leading cause of birth defects is a virus that many expectant parents have never heard about. That may change soon thanks to the advocacy of parents whose children suffered birth defects due to the ...

Human cytomegalovirus (HCMV) is a ubiquitous member of the Betaherpesvirinae that infects the majority of the human population. Although primary infection is often asymptomatic in immunocompetent ...

Lily Belle never got to grow up, be a sister or experience the world, writes Arissa Viering. But with the right awareness and medical research, we might have been able to save her life. iStock ...

Credit: Getty Images This review provides a concise overview of the epidemiology, etiology, history, diagnostic criteria, and management of CMV infection in solid organ transplant recipients.

Some viruses can be dormant throughout a person's life and cause no harm but become dangerous when the immune system is weakened. One of such viruses is human cytomegalovirus (CMV). Harmless to the ...

CARROLLTON, Ga. - Visiting Children's Healthcare of Atlanta, Mason Barnes is a pretty typical 3-year-old, who just happens to be wearing two cochlear implants. "He wakes up in the morning and he says, ...