The cause of acute hepatitis is not yet known.
REPUBLIKA.CO.ID, YOGYAKARTA — Gadjah Mada University (UGM) Epidemiologist Riris Andono Ahmad said a new variant of hepatitis or many called acute hepatitis has no association with the Covid-19 vaccine. Hepatitis is also not related to vaccines.
“We need to understand and also disseminate to the public that hepatitis, which has no known cause, can be said to be unrelated to the Covid-19 vaccine,” said Riris Andomo Ahmad through an official statement from UGM in Yogyakarta, Monday.
He said the cause of the new hepatitis variant was not known until now, so it is still being called unknown hepatitisBecause of its sudden onset and rapidly worsening, this new variant of hepatitis is also known as “acute hepatitis”.
However, in the midst of society, later information emerged stating that unknown hepatitis this is caused by the Covid-19 vaccine.
Riris admitted that she was not surprised by the hypothesis that guessed unknown Hepatitis caused by the COVID-19 vaccine has emerged in the community. Because, in some cases unknown “As is known, one or two Covid-19 vaccines are made using adenovirus technology as a vector to cause the immune system to emerge from Covid-19,” he said.
However, the comparative data found by Riris stated that all cases of unknown hepatitis reported in the United Kingdom (UK) never get Covid-19. In addition, the adenovirus used for several Covid-19 vaccines is also a virus that cannot replicate or reproduce.
About adenovirus as a cause unknown Hepatitis is actually still a hypothesis, because adenovirus is only found in a few or not in all cases unknown hepatitis. So, this mysterious hepatitis is not related to the Covid-19 vaccine.
As of May 10, 2022, the Director General of Disease Prevention and Control of the Indonesian Ministry of Health, Dr. dr. Maxi Rein Rondonuwu said that the number of cases unknown hepatitis or acute hepatitis has reached 436 from 27 countries, with Indonesia being included in it.
In Indonesia alone, as of May 13, 2022, the number of cases of acute hepatitis was recorded at 17 cases, with one of them already in the probable category. The Director General of Maxi also said that active investigations into the causes of acute hepatitis are still ongoing and are being carried out worldwide.
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