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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: 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.
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(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]
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(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.
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(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.
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(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?
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