Cytomegalovirus: Who is Likely to Catch it?
All people are at risk of catching Cytomegalovirus. It is very common and by the age of 40 most people have it but don't know it because it causes no symptoms or illness if you are in good health.
Cytomegalovirus spreads via bodily fluids such as saliva, blood, urine, semen, tears, breast milk etc. It is obviously difficult to avoid intimate physical contact with other people to avoid catching Cytomegelovirus. Luckily there is no need to avoid catching it as it is quite harmless.
Cytomegalovirus is mostly contagious in the incubation period of 3 to 4 weeks and a couple of months after. Once you've got it, it stays permanently in your body along with the antibodies your body produced to fight it and keep it latent.
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Cytomegalovirus
Hello
Our infant (22 months) as been in contact with a three years old child that have cytomegalovirus and still contagious. This incident appens on december 11th. This child as been determine with this disease at his birth and we know that he as problem with is vision. This child give a kiss to our child. The mother of the sick child told us that the hospital that follow is child said that is only contagious in is urine and excrement. But we reed about this infection and see that this infection is transmit by saliva, semen, tears, breast milk...My girlfriend is pregnant of 10 weeks. I would like to know if a child can only be infectious in is irine and excrement.
Thanks,
From anxious Parent's.