The WHO = World Health Organization has revealed that 348 cases have been reported so far for acute hepatitis of unknown cause, which has been reported one after another mainly in young children in Europe and the United States.
WHO expects to obtain data such as the infection history of the new coronavirus from the United Kingdom, which has a large number of patients, within the next week, and is investigating the relationship.
Philippa Easterbrook, who is in charge of hepatitis control at WHO, revealed at a regular press conference in Geneva, Switzerland on the 10th that 348 cases of acute hepatitis of unknown cause have been reported from Europe and the United States so far. Did.
In addition, adenovirus that causes sore throat and diarrhea was detected in about 70% of the patients tested, and about 18% were positive in the PCR test for the new coronavirus.
"The future focus will be on looking at the results of serum tests to see if we've been infected with the new corona in the past. Hopefully we'll have data from the UK in the next week," Easter Brook said in a press conference. Based on these data, we will investigate a wide range of causes, including the relationship with the new coronavirus.