According to János Szlávik, chief infectologist, there were also pregnant women in Hungary who contracted the coronavirus, but did not experience any problems during pregnancy and delivery.

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Fetal damage is not caused by a coronavirus infection, but symptoms and complications in a pregnant woman, such as fever and pneumonia, can cause premature delivery or miscarriage, said János Áder, chief physician of the National Institute of Hematology and Diseases. Infectious Hospital South Pest Central. Blue Planet on the podcast on Monday.

János Slavik reported that there have been cases around the world where the infection passed from mother to fetus, but this is extremely rare. “Experience around the world shows that the virus is not dangerous for newborns. Babies who were infected had very mild symptoms. However, the newborn sometimes dies as a result of the infection,” he said.

According to her, there were also pregnant women in Hungary who contracted the virus, but did not experience any problems during pregnancy and delivery.

“However, if pregnant women need treatment, it becomes more difficult that they cannot be given the experimental drugs that are used against the coronavirus, only antipyretics, cough drugs can be used,” he added.

The chief physician asked pregnant women to take care of themselves in the event of an epidemic and to avoid “unnecessary excitement.” Regarding the fact that 80-90 percent of pathogens are unknown to humanity, John Slavik said that scientists are primarily concerned with pathogens infecting humans.

In the conversation, János Áder put it this way: “we ourselves degrade our opportunities by not respecting nature enough and not paying attention to the signals we receive from nature.” Deforestation, urbanization, climate change, and wastewater treatment also contribute to epidemics. In developing world countries, for example, 50 percent of people treated in hospitals need care for a disease spread by contaminated water, the president said.

János Slavik reacted to this: the population of developing countries is at great risk due to infections, infant mortality from contaminated water is very high and cholera also affects millions of people. But Europe is also in danger, because if warming continues in the next few years, it will have to deal with diseases that have so far only occurred in the tropics, the chief physician said.

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