“…Even though the emphasis in birth defect risk-factor studies has been on febrile infections in the context of hyperthermia as the teratogen, there is good evidence that maternal non-febrile infections and chronic diseases do indeed pose potential risks of birth defects and susceptibility to disease after birth (e.g., Erickson, 1991;Dong et al, 2015;Lee et al, 2015).…”