Melbourne researchers develop new test to easily identify dangerous common virus in babies

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The test involves a simple mouth swab and it can determine whether children are positive for a common herpes-like virus. 9News

The test involves a simple mouth swab which can be taken at home within days after a mother and baby are discharged from hospital.

Associate Professor Valerie Sung said that if mothers picked up the virus during pregnancy either for the first time or if the virus re-activated during pregnancy it could cause problems for their unborn babies.Like all new born babies, her son Teddy, now two, was given a standard hearing screen in hospital shortly after he was born."That was the beginning of our journey of finding out Teddy is profoundly deaf and also had Congenital CMV," Ms Cottrell said.

 

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