2023-04-30 23:40:00
The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is investigating the worrisome and inexplicable increase of brain abscesses in children in the state of Nevada, where the number of infections it tripled in 2022.
Last year the number of abscesses accumulation of pus in the brain brain in infants in the state it went from an average of five per year to 18.”In my 20 years of experienceI’ve never seen anything like it.” told CNN Taryn Braggpediatric neurosurgeon who treated the cases.
Doctors from other states also reported a increase similar in infections. «We are impressed by the number of cases we are seeing.”he pointed Sunil Sooddisease specialist infectious pediatric clinics from Northwell Health, a network of medical attention of New York state, adding that the number of brain abscesses in minors has doubled.
The CDC investigator Jessica Penney presented a study on the cases in Clark County, Nevada, during the annual conference of the Epidemiological Intelligence Service. He determined that the rebound in cases could be related to immune system of the children who were less able to fight diseases after the years of confinement due to the Coronavirus pandemic.
«Perhaps in that period, in which the children did not have these exhibitionsdid not develop immunity that was obtained previously“, He suggested.
Sood, for his part, does not agree with that hypothesisbut he believes that it may be due to the increase sinus infections and the inner ear, after which brain abscesses usually appear, which after Covid-19 returned with force.
Source: RT in Spanish
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