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Tuesday, April 19, 2022

Rare, severe liver damage reported in kids in U.S. and Europe


Public health officials in Europe and the United States are investigating dozens of puzzling cases of severe hepatitis in young children. 
Hepatitis is an inflammation of the liver. The cause is often a virus, but the viruses that commonly cause the illness — hepatitis A, B, C, D and E — have been ruled out in the cases in question, leaving doctors searching for the culprit. 
In several cases, the illness was so severe that the children needed a liver transplant. No deaths have been reported. 
The World Health Organization on Friday said it was investigating 74 cases of severe acute hepatitis in children under age 13 in the United Kingdom and Northern Ireland. 
Three cases were also reported in Spain, the WHO said. It’s not clear when symptoms for most of the children began, but of the first 10 identified in the U.K., nine got sick in March and one in January 2022, according to the WHO.

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