Chinanews.com, April 22. According to the National Broadcasting Corporation (NBC), the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) issued a health warning on the 21st local time, asking doctors across the United States to pay close attention to unexplained severe children. Hepatitis cases.
Alabama has reported nine cases of unexplained childhood hepatitis. While there have been no deaths in the state, several children were so ill that they needed liver transplants, all between the ages of 1 and 6 without any previous underlying medical conditions.
In addition, two cases of childhood hepatitis were identified in North Carolina. Bailey Pennington, a spokesman for the local health department, said two school-aged children in the state had recovered from severe hepatitis. “No cause has been identified, nor has they been found to have been exposed to common pathogens,” Pennington said in a statement.
WHO previously notified that laboratory analysis had ruled out the possibility that unexplained childhood hepatitis cases were caused by hepatitis A, B, C, D, and E viruses, and tested samples from some cases. to the new coronavirus or adenovirus.
However, investigators said the coronavirus and the vaccine were not linked in any way to these hepatitis cases, the report said.
In addition, the CDC said in a health warning that while there have been cases of hepatitis in immunocompromised children infected with adenovirus type 41, it is unclear whether it is the cause of the disease in healthy children. Causes of hepatitis.
According to Agence France-Presse earlier, the European Union health agency said on the 19th local time that cases of childhood hepatitis of unknown cause first detected in the United Kingdom have now spread to Denmark, Ireland, the Netherlands, Spain and the United States.
The European Center for Disease Control and Prevention said investigations were underway in all countries reporting cases, and the exact cause of hepatitis in these children was not known.