Prenatal Exposure To Hong Kong Flu Associated With Reduced Intelligence In Adulthood
Thursday, April 16, 2009 - 09:21
in Health & Medicine
The Hong Kong flu pandemic was responsible for more than 700,000 deaths worldwide in the late 1960s, with major disease outbreaks in Europe in the winter of 1969-1970. A number of studies have been conducted to determine if prenatal exposure to the influenza virus may result in mental disorders that affect a small portion of the population, but no studies have explored the possible effects of prenatal exposure on the mean intelligence in the general population.