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Re: influenza b
From: Lynn D. Montgomery, MD (anonymous@obgyn.net)
Wed, 28 Feb 2001 18:29:57 -0600 (CST)

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At Wed, 28 Feb 2001, gigi burn wrote: >
>I am a pregnant nurse practitioner. This is my second pregnancy; my
>first ended in fetal demise at 22 weeks. The autopsy was negative,
>cultures were negative. I work at a big city hospital on a bone marrow
>transplant unit. I am confused about what kind of infectious patients
>are harmful to my baby. I am now 10 weeks pregnant. I had a flu shot
>in 11/00. I took care of a patient last week, and it turns out now the
>patient has influenza b. Was caring for this patient dangerous to my
>pregnancy?
>
>Thank you for your time,
>Gigi

Influenza B should not be a problem. I would try to avoid patients with CMV or parvovirus... Lynn

-- Lynn D. Montgomery, MD Director, Maternal-Fetal Medicine Rocky Mountain Perinatal Center Missoula, Montana
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