{"id":105322,"date":"2025-08-29T22:39:07","date_gmt":"2025-08-29T22:39:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/105322\/"},"modified":"2025-08-29T22:39:07","modified_gmt":"2025-08-29T22:39:07","slug":"a-gp-guide-to-preventing-congenital-cmv","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/105322\/","title":{"rendered":"A GP guide to preventing congenital CMV"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Need to know:<\/p>\n<p>Cytomegalovirus is a common herpesvirus that typically causes no symptoms or complications in healthy, immunocompetent individuals. However, if a woman acquires CMV during pregnancy, vertical transmission may occur, potentially leading to serious sequelae in the developing fetus.<\/p>\n<p>These may include fetal brain damage, hydrops, anaemia, stillbirth or neonatal death. Long-term outcomes include sensorineural hearing loss, developmental delay, epilepsy and cerebral palsy.<\/p>\n<p>In high-income countries, about one in 200 infants have congenital CMV,1 and around one in 10 of these will develop significant long-term health impacts.2<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\u00d7<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\tSign in\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p class=\"message adg-password-reset\">\n\t\t\t\tIf this is your first visit to the new AusDoc website, reset your password<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t<a class=\"adg-reset_password_link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ausdoc.com.au\/wp-login.php?action=lostpassword\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">here.<\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Need to know: Cytomegalovirus is a common herpesvirus that typically causes no symptoms or complications in healthy, immunocompetent&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":105323,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[64,63,137,2166,64189,39767,2169,8724],"class_list":{"0":"post-105322","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-health","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-health","11":"tag-infectious-diseases","12":"tag-obstetrics","13":"tag-pathology","14":"tag-pregnancy","15":"tag-screening"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105322","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=105322"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105322\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/105323"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=105322"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=105322"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=105322"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}