Investigations to find the origin of the cause of the outbreak of acute hepatitis in children They continue to advance and after a first link with the adenovirus F41, the possibility of a relationship has now been opened.causal ation of this pathology with dogs.
As the United Kingdom Health Security Agency (UKHSA) has warned, they are “investigating” this cause after detecting that a “high” number of affected minors have a dog or have had recent contact with one. Specifically, according to the surveys carried out by this body, the 70 percent (64 of 92 children) had a perro or had been exposed to these animals.
At the same time, they detail that they are currently “exploring the importance of this finding” and do not rule out that It could be a “coincidence” due to the large number of UK families who own pets.
The adenovirus F41, continues as the main ‘suspect’
Despite this possible new link between the acute hepatitis and dogsfrom the Ukhsa clarify that their investigations still “continue to suggest that there is a association with adenovirus F41” and now they will “test” the new association “rigorously”.
In this sense, the second report from the British authority has corroborated what was detected in the first report by detecting this adenovirus in 51 of the 62 cases. However, they say, a set of samples consisting of blood and feces has not been tested for most of them. “We can say that the landscape of adenovirus detection in blood is not being matched by detection of adenovirus in feces at the same time, but in a handful of cases an adenovirus has been found in the blood, with a different adenovirus found in materials. fecal or respiratory, indicating a possible mixed infectionthey detail.
No link to the Covid-19 vaccine
What they do rule out from the United Kingdom is a possible relationship with the Covid-19 vaccine. “There is no evidence of any link with the coronavirus vaccine“, assures the Uksha, who justifies it with the argument that most of the cases are under five years old and are too young to have received the vaccine. “Vaccines against Covid-19 were not registered in cases of children under 5 years, an age group that constitutes more than 75 percent of the cases of hepatitis”, they detail in the report.
Regarding the total number of cases, since the previous report, which dates from April 29, another 18 confirmed cases have been identified, which raises the total number of UK cases to 163. Among these new affected, 11 children have needed a liver transplant and no fatality has been recorded. In Spain, according to the most recent data from the Ministry of Health, there are 22 cases of acute hepatitis in children under investigation.
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