Prenatal-onset GBS Disease Recognition Month
There are three types of GBS disease (prenatal-onset, early-onset, and late-onset) but prenatal-onset is often overlooked or not recognized, which discounts the thousands of babies who are miscarried, stillborn, or born already sick each year due to being infected by GBS in the womb.
We want to make sure that prenatal-onset GBS disease is recognized and that more pregnant women and health care professionals become aware that pregnancy is a distinct time period in which babies can be infected by GBS.
GBSI has identified several knowledge-based strategies which may help reduce the harm caused to unborn babies by GBS.
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