Mysterious hepatitis has already resulted in the deaths of 11 children in the United States
Doctors around the world have not yet been able to find a cause for infection or link the cases in which children under the age of 10 have developed hepatitis. “Additional clinical data needed”
The mysterious liver disease, which is spreading around the world for an unknown reason, has already resulted in the deaths of 11 children in the United States and dozens of hospitalizations.
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The Center for Disease Control and Prevention, the CDC, last week released an analysis showing that since October 1, 2021, there have been a total of 296 cases of hepatitis that have developed indistinctly among children in the United States under the age of 10.
One of the interesting data in the report is that most of the children who became infected with the bacterium, never went to medical treatment or attended school. “Less than half, 42.5 percent, of the children attended school a month before they became infected or came to a medical institution, and 56.1 percent never did,” it read. In addition, a third of the patients were only children in the family farm.
Researchers continue to find a link between all the children who contracted the mysterious hepatitis, and meanwhile ruled out travel, food or toxic substances. Also, there seems to be no link between liver disease and previous infection in Corona, as only 10 to 26 percent of young people who became ill reported having been infected with the virus.
By the way, the vaccine against corona also does not seem to be related to cases, since most of the children did not receive it.
However, adenovirus, a group of viruses that cause a variety of diseases including respiratory diseases and eye infections, was detected in 45% of cases, and nearly 90% of all infected children in the U.S. were hospitalized.
“Additional clinical data are needed to understand the cause of hepatitis in these patients, and to assess the potential association with adenovirus,” the CDC said.
As you may recall, concerns about children’s health increased last April, when the United Kingdom notified the World Health Organization (WHO) of ten cases of hepatitis in Scotland.
Since then, a retrospective analysis of cases since October 2021 onwards, has resulted in 920 cases in 33 countries around the world, of which 45 children needed a liver transplant and 18 died.
As mentioned, most of the deaths occurred in the Americas, while most of the reported cases at all were recorded in Europe.
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