A general medical practitioner at the Jos University Teaching Hospital , Jos, Panshak Tenmang, has advised pregnant women with herpes to treat the disease to avoid blindness in newborns.
He said blindness or eye infection could occur through the birth canal at the point of delivery or transmitted to the child through the placenta or the umbilical cord.NAN reports that Herpes is a contagious skin disease caused by a virus which gives rise to watery blisters and can be transmitted sexually.
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