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I want to know if blood infection wont affect unborn baby?
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Not true: Some infections, and in fact some viruses can in fact infect the placenta and some fungi can do the same. Blood infections can breach and lessen the placental barrier by inflammation and traverse it.
Answered 11/22/2013
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