At least 169 children in 12 countries have developed severe hepatitis in an unexplained outbreak that researchers believe may be linked to a virus that causes mild cold symptoms.
A boy is in France.
The World Health Organization recorded 169 cases of acute hepatitis in children between 1 month and 16 years, including 114 cases in the U.K.
The Alabama Department of Public Health said that children affected in Alabama came from all over the state, had no significant underlying health conditions and were not connected in any obvious way.
At least one child has died from the disease, and 10% of children have to have a transplant, according to the WHO.
The U.K. Health Security Agency found that children who developed hepatitis did not test positive for the disease, but they did find a possible link to adenoviruses, a common pathogen that causes mild cold symptoms.
There are no confirmed cases of the disease in the U.K. that have been linked to the vaccine Covid-19.
On April 6th, UKSHA announced that it had identified a possible outbreak of children's diseases. The severity of the disease varies depending on which virus causes it, while the duration of the disease is usually weeks. The emergence of a new pathogen is one of the proposed explanations for the outbreak. Simon Taylor-Robinson, a researcher at Imperial College London, said that children's immune systems may have been weakened during the Covid-19 epidemic. The current outbreak of adenoviruses in the U.S. was caused by children who had the type 41, which causes symptoms like vomiting and diarrhea. The CDC said that adenoviruses has not been linked to all cases in the current hepatitis outbreak, and that it is not known if it is involved in the outbreak in children with immune disorders.
The CDC said that there are a number of symptoms of the disease. There are a number of symptoms of the adenoviruses, including a sore throat, pneumonia, vomiting, and stomach pain.
Maria Buti, chair of the European Association of the Study of the Liver public health committee, said that the number of cases is still very low.
There is a sudden outbreak of hepatitis in kids in Europe and the US.
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