Abstract:Dr McNiel of Fort Dodge, Iowa writes: "Our infection committee noticed that in the new edition of the report of the Committee on Infectious Disease (Red Book) that mothers with active genital herpes may now breast-feed infants. Recent articles in Pediatric Infectious Diseases (1:81, 1982)and in Pediatrics in Review (2:259, 1981) show that herpes is still a devastating illness to most newborns who get it. Roughly 90% of babies who get neonatal herpes are either dead or damaged and with treatment the outlook is … Show more
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