CMV Infection Risk Factors
What are the risk factors that lead to this condition? Are you at risk of getting CMV Infection? Below you'll find information on each of the known risk factors for this condition.
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CMV Infection Risks
This virus is so common throughout the US. Everyone is considered at risk for CMV.
People with the highest risk of acquiring this virus include:
- Children and childcare providers in day care and preschool
- Due to frequent exposure to body fluids that carry the infection
- People with suppressed or impaired immune systems
- Transplant recipients
- Cancer patients undergoing chemotherapy
- People with HIV and AIDS
- Babies
in utero - Exposure can result in congenital CMV (congenital means the baby is born with the condition); about 1% of babies born in the US have congenital CMV
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