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I hope you’re making the ‘common knowledge she had mono’ thing up.

Mono causes zero complications during pregnancy, nor is it a birth defect or miscarriage risk.

Booting or removing children from school because of Mono is an ill-informed relic of the pre 1970’s. The amount of saliva that someone else has to injest to trigger anything more than an immune cell-generating antibody reaction is substantial. It takes a minimum of care to prevent transmission. Care like ‘dont french kiss your sister’.

Are they seriously floating this?

My son had mono, and not that many years ago. He could not return to school until a test, which was done at 30 days, and again every week thereafter, came back showing it was gone. This was explained to me as being “in part”, the compromising of the spleen, should any accident/injury occur to the area. It also can be very easily contracted. My son was young enough that we had no idea how he got it, and finally determined it was by sharing a soda with someone who had it.

I am not knowledgeable on any implications of risk during pregnancy. Only posed a possibility. What I do know, is when one gets mono, it has the tendency to show symptoms of other illnesses, even mimics some and can be misdiagnosed as my son's was at first. Mono is not necessarily the same for all who get it. One thing they do need is LOTS of rest and sleep. As to pregnancy with mono, I would think it would be an added hindrance, and strain on the mother at the very least.

And yes I believe a poster, earlier in the thread had showed the link where the child had mono.