According to the National Institute of Child Health and Development (NICHD) chlamydia, gonorrhea, genital herpes, and cytomegalovirus can be passed from mother to infant during delivery when the infant passes through
an infected birth canal, while HIV and CMV, can infect a fetus before birth during your pregnancy.
Not exact matches
And we are to speak, we who abort while in the
birth canal, who
infect women and children with STD's, etc., etc..
Hosts
infected by viruses found new uses for the genetic material the agents of disease left behind; metabolic enzymes somehow came to refract light rays through the eye's lens; mammals took advantage of the sutures between the skull bones to help their young pass through the
birth canal; and, in the signature example, feathers appeared in fossils before the ancestors of modern birds took to the skies.
Not only would a yeast infection be an uncomfortable nuisance during pregnancy, there is also a risk of the baby becoming
infected as it passes through the vaginal
canal during
birth.
Pups seem to get the virus through the saliva of their
infected dam, though a few may contract it in the
birth canal or even in the uterus before
birth.
The herpes virus is passed through bodily secretions, and most pups become
infected by their own mother, either in utero or when passing through the
birth canal.