What are the most frequent symptoms of chickenpox virus infection in a child?
• Neonatal varicella is caused by maternal virus infection, leading to spread of the virus across the placenta. • Varicella during the first three months of pregnant can induce serious malformations to the fetus that could be shown as congenital malformation like abnormalities in the ocular structures and nervous system, limb atrophies and possible growth retardation. • Neonates born from infected women during five days before delivery or fewer than two days postpartum can be infected by the also dangerous Varicella Neonatorum; this is a disseminated manifestation of the virus in the baby that could cause severe and hemorrhagic lesions in the lungs and the liver, making this a potentially fatal disease.
