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A sixth child has died in the United States from puzzling liver inflammation—aka hepatitis—and the number of unexplained cases has risen to 180 across 36 states, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
The latest death was announced in a press briefing Friday, led by CDC Deputy Director for Infectious Diseases Jay Butler, who said it was reported to the agency Thursday. He did not indicate in which state the death occurred.
In addition to the deaths, 15 of the 180 cases required liver transplants, Butler reported. The cases all occurred in children under the age of 10 but skewed to preschool-age children, with the median age being around 2 years.
The latest US tallies feed into a global phenomenon that now includes over 600 cases across 31 countries, including 15 deaths. But, despite the growing numbers, international health experts are still scrambling to understand what's behind the illnesses after eliminating the most obvious possibilities, such as hepatitis viruses A, B, C, D, and E.
Previously:
CDC Raises Alarm of Mysterious Hepatitis Cases in Kids; 2 States Report Cases
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday May 25 2022, @12:22AM (26 children)
It morphed your covid
(Score: 0, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday May 25 2022, @12:47AM (4 children)
ya, that was what came first to mind.
Are we going to hear about how these Vaxs are now going to trigger something not accounted for? (or, tinfoilhat accounted for?)
(Score: 1) by khallow on Wednesday May 25 2022, @10:26AM
Why?
Rather than a novel disease like covid?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday May 25 2022, @02:30PM (1 child)
Repeat after me ...Correlation does not imply causation.
(Score: 5, Informative) by Freeman on Wednesday May 25 2022, @02:42PM
In this case, there's not much correlation either as a number of the kids who got it, never had a COVID vaccine.
https://arstechnica.com/science/2022/04/cdc-warns-of-puzzling-hepatitis-cases-in-kids-cases-in-2-states-10-countries/ [arstechnica.com]
Also, from another article:
https://arstechnica.com/science/2022/05/cdc-reports-109-cases-of-puzzling-hepatitis-cases-in-kids-5-deaths/ [arstechnica.com]
Joshua 1:9 "Be strong and of a good courage; be not afraid, neither be thou dismayed: for the Lord thy God is with thee"
(Score: 3, Informative) by DeathMonkey on Wednesday May 25 2022, @08:30PM
Well children under 5 aren't approved to get the vaccine yet so what came to your two minds first is dumb.
(Score: 4, Insightful) by Sulla on Wednesday May 25 2022, @01:14AM (19 children)
Unless they can show in the study that every kid that got hepatitis had the Vax its kind of early to claim them to be related. I'm not saying its not possible but it is kind of a stretch at this point. Plus we all know they are safe and effective at preventing
transmission,infection, and severe illness so its insulting to even imply this.From the limited evidence we have, I would also like to see the data on whether the kids who died got their full series of childhood vaccinations. Depending on your state/country it was impossible to get a doctors appointment in the early pandemic to get their shots. And even if you could get in to get them, it was often outside the normal vaccination series timing windows.
Ceterum censeo Sinae esse delendam
(Score: 2, Interesting) by RS3 on Wednesday May 25 2022, @01:33AM (12 children)
There are so many possible factors. Mother's milk, excessively clean, excessive anti-bacterial soaps, and far more factors than I can remember hearing / reading about over the years, so who really knows. It's likely difficult to compile and correlate data and causation.
(Score: 2, Troll) by JoeMerchant on Wednesday May 25 2022, @01:55AM (11 children)
It is undeniably difficult to prove causality, impossible in the current number of cases.
The leading suspect seems to be a rare side effect of
an otherwise mild COVID infection.
Україна досі не є частиною Росії Слава Україні🌻 https://news.stanford.edu/2023/02/17/will-russia-ukraine-war-end
(Score: 0, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday May 25 2022, @02:31AM
Who says that beside you and that AC? Based on what?
(Score: 3, Interesting) by janrinok on Wednesday May 25 2022, @06:03AM (9 children)
Citation please? I'm not saying that I know that you are wrong - but I have not even heard that being mentioned anywhere else.
(Score: 0, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday May 25 2022, @07:44AM (3 children)
I will say it, JoeMerchant is making shit up again. They won't find such an article because TFA correctly states that the primary suspect is Ad41.
The US CDC says, "Some other causes have been ruled out for the children in Alabama, including: The virus that causes COVID-19" and "Investigators are examining a possible relationship to adenovirus type 41 infection."https://www.cdc.gov/ncird/investigation/hepatitis-unknown-cause/overview-what-to-know.html
The EU CDC goes into more detail by stating, "the current leading hypothesis is that a co-factor affecting young children having an adenovirus infection [...] triggers a more severe infection or immune-mediated liver damage." https://www.ecdc.europa.eu/en/increase-severe-acute-hepatitis-cases-unknown-aetiology-children [europa.eu]
Could it still turn out to be a SARS-CoV-2 infection? Yes, it very well could be. But leaving open the possibility is a far cry from saying that it is "the leading suspect." Unless you want to just make up shit for whatever reason.
(Score: 1, Flamebait) by JoeMerchant on Wednesday May 25 2022, @02:00PM (2 children)
https://lmgtfy.app/?q=covid+link+to+hepatitis [lmgtfy.app]
Україна досі не є частиною Росії Слава Україні🌻 https://news.stanford.edu/2023/02/17/will-russia-ukraine-war-end
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday May 25 2022, @10:09PM (1 child)
I'd suggest working on your reading comprehension.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday May 26 2022, @03:24AM
Rather than literal trolling, maybe you could use your gargantuan intellect to explain how the linked article does not connect hepatitis with covid?
(Score: 2) by JoeMerchant on Wednesday May 25 2022, @01:57PM (4 children)
Here's one: https://gut.bmj.com/content/69/Suppl_1/A22 [bmj.com]
it has 11 citations since September 2020.
Україна досі не є частиною Росії Слава Україні🌻 https://news.stanford.edu/2023/02/17/will-russia-ukraine-war-end
(Score: 2) by janrinok on Wednesday May 25 2022, @02:44PM (3 children)
I don't see any convincing connection to children but you can read it that way if you wish.
(Score: 2) by JoeMerchant on Wednesday May 25 2022, @04:14PM
While there are 600 reported cases worldwide, there are far fewer with solid data about the childrens' history, comorbidities, etc.
It could be Hepatitis G (as yet unidentified) or it could be that COVID variant X is a source of pediatric hepatitis, or one of a million other things - at this point.
I'm open to better connections currently published in peer reviewed literature.
Україна досі не є частиною Росії Слава Україні🌻 https://news.stanford.edu/2023/02/17/will-russia-ukraine-war-end
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday May 25 2022, @10:33PM
The syndrome they are citing and the syndrome the summary and all the news is about are two different syndromes.
(Score: 2) by JoeMerchant on Friday May 27 2022, @01:02PM
They have also found correlation with Adenovirus 41:
https://www.who.int/emergencies/disease-outbreak-news/item/2022-DON376 [who.int]
Not causation, of course, but what true scientist would call causation with so little data?
Україна досі не є частиною Росії Слава Україні🌻 https://news.stanford.edu/2023/02/17/will-russia-ukraine-war-end
(Score: 0, Interesting) by JoeMerchant on Wednesday May 25 2022, @01:52AM (5 children)
The early reports on this stated that most of the victims were not vaccinated, which might imply that they were more likely to have experienced a bad case of COVID.
However, AC's point stands: the COVID circulating in the wild today has been shaped by the vaccines. Proving a causal link between the vaccines and this hepatitis outbreak is virtually impossible (not to mention painting a target on the people attempting to make such a link). Still, the COVID we have today is undeniably different than the COVID we would have had without vaccines.
Are vaccines bad? On balance, no. But they are not 100% good, either.
Україна досі не є частиною Росії Слава Україні🌻 https://news.stanford.edu/2023/02/17/will-russia-ukraine-war-end
(Score: 5, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday May 25 2022, @01:58AM (3 children)
You are saying statement X is impossible to disprove, so there must be something to it.
That AC has no point, and you are an idiot for supporting it.
(Score: 2, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday May 25 2022, @05:48AM (2 children)
no, no, you don't understand.
what he's saying is that wearing helmets leads to helmet remnants being found in skulls of crushed miners and fallen mountain climbers.
wearing helmets has changed the nature of skullcrushing injuries, which would look very different if we were not wearing helmets.
isn't it obvious?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday May 25 2022, @01:29PM
i am going to stop wearing helmets right away.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by Freeman on Wednesday May 25 2022, @02:50PM
Sure, you say, it's totally unbelievable. What, if said helmet was more easily damaged than your head and created sharp projectiles that stabbed into your skull, thus killing you?
While vaccines have been very helpful in killing off smallpox and very helpful against some things. It doesn't mean that there are no downsides to vaccinations. In fact, it's possible that there are some serious downsides, given the right set of unfortunate / unforeseen circumstances.
Joshua 1:9 "Be strong and of a good courage; be not afraid, neither be thou dismayed: for the Lord thy God is with thee"
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday May 25 2022, @01:13PM
Please insert brain between hands and keyboard before you type.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday May 27 2022, @02:13AM
Wow.. the moderation count on this comment sure shows how seriously people take this "information warfare", believing they are saving the world