The sneaky thing about viral infections is that you can be infected and
never even know it until long after the fact.  

Kat

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From: Bobby Greer [log in to unmask]
Date: Fri, 06 Jan 2006 11:12:37 -0600
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: HUUH????????              Exposure to viral infections atbirth
linked to cerebral palsy?????????????


    There is nothing "new" in this research.In a worshop on Cerebral Palsy
we wrote  a chapter on etiological factors of CP. Viral infections were
always mentioned. This was in 1963! I believe Dr. Little mentioned
infections as some of the etiologiical factors in his lecture to the London
Obstetrical Society in 1863! I came away from this study in awe that anyone
was born without disability! I believe we found 53 etiological factors.
Bobby.
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From: "greta von der luft" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Friday, January 06, 2006 10:15 AM
Subject: Re: HUUH???????? Exposure to viral infections at birth linked to
cerebral palsy?????????????


Yes. Exposure to viruses either prenatally (first trimester?), antenatally
(mom has a dormant or active virus at or around birth especially if present
in birth canal) or post natally (within the first month? of life)  has been
linked to CP. This has been posed/researched within the past three to five
years....

pub med search, pathophysiology and CP would probably give you this and
other scary links...

The gift of life without disabilities is even more precious than you may
think....

I do not mean to offend anyone that has CP. I do not mean to imply that
their lives are not precious and were not gifts. Nor am I trying to be
religious....

I will sign off before I offend anyone else...

Greta
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  From: Meir Weiss<mailto:[log in to unmask]>
  To: [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>
  Sent: Friday, January 06, 2006 10:47 AM
  Subject: HUUH???????? Exposure to viral infections at birth linked to
cerebral palsy?????????????


  Exposure to viral infections at birth linked to cerebral palsy


  Reuters


  Friday, January 06, 2006


  Exposure to certain viral infections around the time of birth is linked to
  cerebral palsy, Australian scientists say. Findings by researchers at the
  University of Adelaide suggest that neurotropic infections, which include
the
  herpes viruses, mumps and measles, could trigger brain damage and cerebral
  palsy, a group of disorders that impairs the control of movement. "The
risk of
  cerebral palsy is nearly doubled with exposure to the herpes B viruses,"
  Catherine Gibson, a research fellow at the university, said in a report in
The
  British Medical Journal. But she added other factors such as a
susceptibility to
  infection or prematurity may be needed for the disorder to develop. Ms.
Gibson
  and her team analyzed blood samples taken within a few days of birth from
443
  children with cerebral palsy and 883 other babies. They found that herpes
B
  viruses were found more frequently in children later diagnosed with
cerebral
  palsy. Neurotropic viruses can cross the placenta and infect the baby
shortly
  before or after birth. The researchers said the likelihood of the mother's
  infection crossing into the fetus depends on the virus, whether the
infection is
  recurrent and the age of the fetus at the time of the infection.

  C National Post 2006








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