A six-month old girl is the first patient at Toronto’s Hospital for Sick Children to benefit from a test introduced in April that detects congenital cytomegalovirus (cCMV), an infection contracted during pregnancy that can cause side effects including hearing loss in the unborn child.
Early detection means specialists can intervene as soon as possible. Click the link to read the CBC’s report on this uplifting story: new test catches virus that causes hearing loss