Mitchell describes a case of small-pox occurring three days after birth, the mother not having had the disease since childhood.

Shertzer relates an instance of confluent small-pox in the eighth month of pregnancy.

The child was born with the disease, and both mother and babe recovered.

Among many others offering evidence of variola in utero are Degner, Derham, John Hunter, Blot, Bulkley, Welch, Wright, Digk, Forbes, Marinus, and Bouteiller.
Varicella, Measles, Pneumonia, and even Malaria are reported as having been transmitted to the child in utero.

Hubbard attended a woman on March 17, 1878, in her seventh accouchement.