Poor pregnancy outcomes with measles infection
4th February 2014
By Rada Rouse
An outbreak of measles in 2009–11 in Namibia allowed researchers to do a case control study on pregnant and non-pregnant women with measles.
The risk of maternal and intra-uterine fetal death was ninefold higher among the pregnant women with measles and the risk of miscarriage and low birth weight was also increased.
Clin Infect Dis 2014; online 22 Jan