If some thought we were done with the Covid-19 pandemic, they were totally wrong. On the one hand, because the virus circulates again and again, but also, because a new disease has just emerged. This has been around for many years already, but it seems that a “variant” has arrived. In any case, this is what a recent WHO study suggests.
In fact, over the past few days, dozens of unexplained cases of infantile hepatitis have just been detected. The British Health Agency, UK Health Security Agency has also expressed its concern when a “significant and unexpected increase” the number of cases of acute inflammation of the liver, also called hepatitis, affected much of Europe. On April 5, the WHO already notified 10 cases in Scotland. people though “previously healthy”. “Of these 10 cases, nine presented symptoms in March 2022 while one case presented symptoms in January 2022”. The British authorities then reassessed the number of cases at 74, only three days later…
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Since then, six children have had to undergo a transplant. Only good news, the fact that no subject has died. Regarding the symptoms of this disease UK Health Security Agency details: “dark urine, pale and gray stools, itchy skin, yellow eyes and skin, muscle and joint pain, high temperature, abnormal fatigue, loss of appetite and stomach pain”.
For the moment, the only way to prevent this “variant” of hepatitis is to continue to adopt the barrier gestures adopted for Covid-19 and to respect all the basic rules of hygiene. These rules “help reduce many of the infections we investigate” according to Dr. Meera Chand, Director of Clinical and Emerging Infections at UKHSA. A situation that obviously worries the health authorities at a time when we have not even come out of the Covid-19 pandemic yet…
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