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French case shows mothers can transmit coronavirus through placenta to unborn baby – 7NEWS.com.au

In the case of a 23-year-old woman, the virus crossed the placenta and created an infection in the last weeks of pregnancy.

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French doctors say they have discovered the first case of coronavirus passed down from a mother to her unborn baby through the placenta.
The case study, published in Nature Communications, reports that the newborn boy developed inflammation in the brain within days of being born, a condition brought on after the virus crossed the placenta and created an infection in the last weeks of the womans pregnancy.
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The boys 23-year-old mother was admitted to hospital on March 24.

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