Risk factors for CMV Infection

This virus is so common throughout the US. Everyone is considered at risk for CMV.

People with the highest risk of acquiring this virus include:

• Children and childcare providers in day care and preschool
  • Due to frequent exposure to body fluids that carry the infection
• People with suppressed or impaired immune systems
  • Transplant recipients
  • Cancer patients undergoing chemotherapy
  • People with HIV or AIDS
• Babies in utero
  • Exposure can result in congenital CMV (congenital means the baby is born with the condition); about 1% of babies born in the US have congenital CMV