A country discovered 44 cases of mysterious hepatitis
Xinhua News Agency quoted information from the Agencia Brasil news agency as saying that at least 44 cases of mysterious hepatitis have been reported in Brazil.
These cases are scattered across the states of Sao Paulo, Minas Gerais, Rio de Janeiro, Espirito Santo, Parana, Santa Catarina, Rio Grande do Sul, Mato Grosso and Pernambuco. In which, Sao Paulo is the state with the highest number of cases with 14 children. In particular, according to CNN, an 8-month-old baby in this country died.
Shortly after, the Brazilian government announced that the country had established a special situation room with the participation of experts from the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO), tasked with monitoring and investigating hepatitis cases. acute in children.
The Brazilian Ministry of Health’s announcement states that the situational department is responsible for collecting information and making recommendations for doctors across Brazil. The establishment of this division is also intended to contribute to international efforts to identify the causative agent of acute hepatitis of unknown origin in children.
At the request of the World Health Organization, Brazilian health officials met with representatives of the UK, US, Canada, France, Portugal, Spain, Colombia and Argentina to discuss the disease.
Doubts Covid-19 is related to mysterious hepatitis
In an interview with CNN, the representative of the Brazilian Society of Pediatrics (SBP), Dr. Renato Kfouri, said that the mysterious hepatitis may be related to the Omicron mutation and suspects that this will be a rare post-Covid-19 sequela in Vietnam. some children.
It is known that, according to the latest report of the World Health Organization (WHO), globally, there are at least 348 cases of mysterious hepatitis in children. From the moment the first cases appeared, what caught the attention of medical professionals about this epidemic was that the culprit was not the common hepatitis virus or any other obvious source.
Then scientists began to focus their attention on adenoviruses, which are found in a large number of pediatric patients. But that is not the final answer. Because there are too many holes to conclude that the cause of mysterious hepatitis is adeno.
After more than a month of discovering the first case, once again, the clues led scientists to turn to a new suspect. That is the theory that mysterious hepatitis is a symptom of prolonged Covid-19.
Health officials advise parents to pay attention to unusual hepatitis symptoms in children such as jaundice, yellow eyes, fever, vomiting, and diarrhea.
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