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There can be serious complications if a baby contract herpes but that doesn't commonly happen. Also there are things the mother can do to help prevent passing herpes to the baby.

If a baby does contract herpes they can have blindness, brain damage, deafness in severe cases herpes can cause death in new born babies.

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