Regarding unexplained hepatitis, which has been reported one after another mainly in young children in Europe and the United States, health authorities in Wisconsin, USA, announced that four children with similar suspected hepatitis were found, and one of them died. ..
According to the WHO = World Health Organization, acute hepatitis has been reported to children under the age of 10 in at least 16 countries, including the United Kingdom and the United States, and about 170 cases have been reported and one has died so far.
On the 27th, health officials in the Midwestern Wisconsin state announced that four new children in the state were found to have suspected unexplained hepatitis, one of whom died.
In the United States, at least a dozen or so cases have been reported, including nine in southern Alabama and two in Midwestern Illinois.
Several cases of severely ill children undergoing liver transplants have been reported, but if hepatitis is confirmed to be the cause, it will be the first death in the United States.
A detailed study of the Alabama case released by the CDC Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on the 29th showed that patients had vomiting, diarrhea, and other symptoms such as swelling, but the general hepatitis virus was detected. It means that it was not done.
In addition, adenovirus that causes sore throat and diarrhea was detected in all cases, but the cause of hepatitis has not been identified.
According to the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare, three patients with unexplained inferior hepatitis have been reported in Japan so far.