As a result of the World Health Organization alerting, at the beginning of April, about the outbreak of a new acute infantile hepatitis, hundreds of publications with content have been published. false linking the disease to the COVID-19 vaccine. The WHO itself assured that the causes of hepatitis are not clear, and that the majority of infected minors were not vaccinated.
As of May 10, 348 cases were recorded in 21 countries. 26 of the minors require a liver transplant, and at least one has died. The Ecuadorian Ministry of Health has ruled out that there are cases in the country, but an alert was raised as a precaution.
Misinterpreted studies and reports spread by anti-vaccines
In recent weeks, thousands of publications and messages have been spread on Whatsapp or Telegram citing a report from the pharmaceutical company Pfizer that would prove that the COVID-19 vaccine would be the cause of the hepatitis outbreak. However, although the studies are real, the content and conclusions of the studies were misrepresented.
For example, one of the documents cited to spread the false news speaks of a research of the University of Lund in Sweden in which it would supposedly prove that “the accumulation of mRNA in the liver causes hepatitis”, but It is not true. The report never concludes that, in fact it is about how the Pfizer/BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine might affect the cells of Liver cancer in Petri dishes, under laboratory conditions. The two authors of the research Yang de Marinis and Magnus Rasmussen affirmed that the results of his work were “misunderstood in many cases”.
Other posts with false content use a 2020 Pfizer report, which is also misrepresented. It is a “biodistribution study” that the pharmaceutical company submitted to the Japanese regulatory agency. The research was done on mice in a laboratory and nowhere in the document does it state that the vaccine causes hepatitis, on the contrary, it states that “there was no severe pathogenesis in the liver.”
What is the new acute childhood hepatitis?
The Pan American Health Organization detailed that some of the symptoms of hepatitis of unknown origin are: muscle pain, diarrhea, vomiting and also jaundice (yellowing of the skin and whites of the eyes).
Its form of transmission is unknown with certainty, but the hypothesis is that it is a viral infection, probably caused by an adenovirus (a common family of viruses that cause, among other diseases, the common cold) of type 41. Scientists also point out that the decrease in immunity as a result of social isolation during the pandemic could be an explanation for the origin of the new disease.
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