A newborn with measles is among the cases reported in the growing West Texas outbreak, Lubbock public health officials say.

to prevent infection. But pregnant women cannot get the vaccine; instead, they can receive immunoglobulin, or antibodies, up to six days after a measles exposure. Infants younger than 6 months can ...

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The greatest risk of disease in the newborn comes with late-pregnancy acquisition of genital infection in a previously unexposed woman; recurrent infections are rarely associated with disseminated ...

In 2015, an outbreak of Zika virus triggered an epidemic in the Americas. People infected with Zika, typically via a mosquito bite, may have mild symptoms, but if the person is pregnant, it can lead ...

Often women are unaware they are even pregnant when the embryonic death occurs and thus these losses are unaccountable. [2] The earliest recognizable effects of infection are usually seen after ...

Our preliminary field observations indicate that most pregnant women became infected through household contacts or as caretakers for children with mpox in a treatment centre. Newborns and young ...

The mosquito becomes infected when it bites a human infected with Zika. The virus is passed on to healthy humans in spit from a bite. Pregnant women can pass the virus to their baby. Breastfeeding: it ...

What women thought was a common vaginal infection so far has now turned out to be a sexually ... In addition to physical symptoms, women have a higher risk of developing STDs and adverse pregnancy ...