![]() “On average, a dengue infection during pregnancy reduces birth weight by 27 grams,” Dr Martin Foureaux Koppensteiner, the study author from the University of Surrey, told The Telegraph. The virus, also known as “ breakbone fever”, is the most common spread by the Aedes genus of mosquito in the world and infects tens of millions of people a year in the tropics.īut climate change is spreading the range of the mosquito which carries dengue further north into Mediterranean holiday hotspots.ĭata show infected pregnant mothers are 77 per cent more likely to give birth before 32 weeks, while the virus more than doubles the risk of a child being born at an extremely low weight. ![]() Scientists have found for the first time that the babies of pregnant women infected with dengue fever can suffer ill effects as a result. A virus spread by mosquito bites increases the risk of premature births, a study has found.
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