'Vivian Act' takes aim at underrecognized virus in babies Minnesota could pioneer screening for congenital cytomegalovirus. By Editorial Board Text size Copy shortlink: Seven years ago, the Henrikson family was minutes away from taking newborn Vivian home from the hospital. Then, an astute physician doing a final check on the two-day-old infant called a halt to the discharge. "Things just kind of aren't adding up,'' Leah Henrikson remembers him saying. Leading up to that, Vivian had a constellation of symptoms — some jaundice, a rash called petechiae and had failed a hearing screening — but nothing that said, "Oh my gosh, we have a really sick baby on our hands."