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Feb 2016
27m 58s

Chicken pox in pregnancy, Club foot, Tes...

Bbc Radio 4
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Dr Margaret McCartney reviews advice to pregnant women concerned about the Zika virus while Andrew Shennan, Professor of Obstetrics at King's College and St Thomas' Hospital in London tells Dr Mark Porter about the risks of infection closer to home - chicken pox. One in every one thousand babies born in the UK has congenital talipes, or club foot. This is w ... Show More
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