Without a vaccine, where we are now is where people were before the chicken pox vaccine; if you’re a woman of reproductive age and planning to have children, you actually want to have it already, because primary infection during pregnancy is so dangerous.
In my personal life I’ve met two children with congenital CMV. One lived only a few days after birth, the other came close to death in infancy but survived but with lifelong disabilities, both physical and cognitive. In my view a vaccine can’t come fast enough!
Without a vaccine, where we are now is where people were before the chicken pox vaccine; if you’re a woman of reproductive age and planning to have children, you actually want to have it already, because primary infection during pregnancy is so dangerous.
In my personal life I’ve met two children with congenital CMV. One lived only a few days after birth, the other came close to death in infancy but survived but with lifelong disabilities, both physical and cognitive. In my view a vaccine can’t come fast enough!