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Adenovirus Linked to Hepatitis Cases

by Colleen Fleiss on May 1 2022 8:59 PM

Adenovirus Linked to Hepatitis Cases
In kids in the US state of Alabama, adenovirus may have caused an outbreak of nine severe hepatitis cases, revealed Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
All the nine kids with severe acute hepatitis tested positive for adenovirus and none of them had a history of Covid-19 infection, Xinhua news agency quoted the CDC as saying.

Three of the kids suffered liver failure and two needed liver transplants. They either have recovered or are recovering.

Hepatitis in US Kids

The CDC said that adenovirus may be the cause of these reported cases, but other potential environmental and situational factors are still being investigated.

While there have been reports of hepatitis cases in immunocompromised children with adenovirus infection, adenovirus type 41 is not known to be a cause of hepatitis in otherwise healthy children, said the CDC.

Source-IANS


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