The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) issued a new health alert, calling attention to unusually high testing positivity rates for the highly transmissible parvovirus B19 as well as clusters of complications among individuals at high risk, such as those with sickle cell disease and pregnant women. Fetal infection can lead to myocarditis and aplastic crisis, and some cases of fetal anemia have required blood transfusions, according to NBC News. Also referred to as …
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