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Japan reported its first case of mysterious hepatitis infection on April 21, 2022.
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Nationalgeographic.co.id—The World Health Organization (WHO) has recently confirmed the infection mysterious hepatitis in England which then spread to Spain. One of the first cases of death has occurred and infections have risen to more than 110 cases in Europe. Now, the infection has also been reported to have spread in North America and Asia recently.
The Guardian reports, Japan have confirmed the child with liver disease acute of unknown origin, and You have investigating similar cases with nearly 200 cases now recorded worldwide. Thus, this mysterious liver disease has spread to dozens of countries around the world, has reached the Asian continent, with cases reported in Japan.
A Japanese case of acute hepatitis, or inflammation of the liver of unknown origin, was flagged by local authorities on April 21 in a child who tested negative for adenovirus, a possible cause that is being investigated worldwide and includes Covid-19.
“The patient has not undergone a liver transplant”, the health ministry said on Monday, April 25, 2022, without providing further details.
Meanwhile, the Public Health Agency of Canada said on Tuesday, April 26, 2022, that it was investigating reports of severe acute hepatitis of unknown origin in children. However, authorities did not reveal the number of cases or their location.
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Severe hepatitis of unknown origin has been recorded in children in a dozen countries around the world.
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So far worldwide, 190 cases of mysterious acute hepatitis in children have been reported. More than 140 of those cases have been confirmed in Europe, most of them in the UK with 110 cases. Further cases have been found in Israel and in the United States. Seventeen children became so sick that they needed a liver transplant.
The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said in a national health alert last week that the first cases there were identified in October in Alabama. Meanwhile, the first case in the UK was recorded in January.
On Saturday, the WHO said at least one death had been reported in connection with the outbreak. The UN health agency said the cases were reported in children aged between one month and 16 years. The WHO did not say in which country the deaths occurred.
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Nearly 200 children have been infected with hepatitis of unknown origin worldwide in 14 countries so far.
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Hepatitis is usually caused by one of several infectious hepatitis viruses, but these have not been found in infected children. Jaundice, diarrhea and abdominal pain are some of the reported symptoms.
One theory being investigated by the UK’s Health Security Agency is that lack of exposure to common adenoviruses usually causes stomach upset and colds. The virus during the coronavirus pandemic has caused more severe illness among children. Of the 53 cases tested in the UK, about 40 or 75 per cent showed signs of adenovirus infection.
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Public Health Scotland director Jim McMenamin told Reuters work was underway to understand whether the adenovirus had mutated to cause more severe disease, or whether it could cause problems “concurrently” with other viruses, including possible Sars-CoV-2, the virus that causes Covid-19.
British officials said there was “no link” between this case and the Covid-19 vaccine, as no children with hepatitis received the vaccine.
Andrea Ammon, director at the European Center for Disease Prevention and Control in Stockholm, said that so far there was no link between cases and no link to travel. “The disease appears in previously healthy children,” Ammon said.
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