{"id":152375,"date":"2022-05-28T13:24:36","date_gmt":"2022-05-28T17:24:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/?p=152375"},"modified":"2022-05-28T13:26:54","modified_gmt":"2022-05-28T17:26:54","slug":"mysterious-cases-of-severe-liver-damage-in-hundreds-of-young-children-around-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/mysterious-cases-of-severe-liver-damage-in-hundreds-of-young-children-around-the-world\/","title":{"rendered":"Mysterious cases of severe liver damage in hundreds of young children around the world"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Health officials remain perplexed by mysterious cases of severe liver damage in hundreds of young children around the world.\u00a0CLICK HERE TO JOIN OUR WHATSAPP GROUP<\/em>.<\/strong><\/a><\/p>

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The best available evidence points to a fairly common stomach bug that isn\u2019t known to cause liver problems in otherwise healthy kids. That virus was detected in the blood of stricken children but \u2014 oddly \u2014 it has not been found in their diseased livers.<\/p>\n

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\u201cThere\u2019s a lot of things that don\u2019t make sense,\u201d said Eric Kremer, a virus researcher at the Institute of Molecular Genetics of Montpellier, in France.<\/p>

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As health officials in more than a dozen countries look into the mystery, they are asking:<\/p>

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\u2014 Has there been some surge in the stomach bug \u2014 called adenovirus 41 \u2014 that is causing more cases of a previously undetected problem?<\/p>\n

\u2014 Are children more susceptible due to pandemic-related lockdowns that sheltered them from the viruses kids usually experience?<\/p>

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\u2014 Is there some mutated version of the adenovirus causing this? Or some other not-yet-identified germ, drug or toxin?<\/p>\n

\u2014 Is it some kind of haywire immune system reaction set off by a past COVID-19 infection and a later invasion by some other virus?<\/p>

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The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and investigators around the globe are trying to sort out what\u2019s going on.\u00a0CLICK HERE TO JOIN OUR WHATSAPP GROUP<\/em>.<\/strong><\/a><\/p>

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The illnesses are considered rare. CDC officials last week said they are now looking into 180 possible cases across the U.S. Most of the children were hospitalized, at least 15 required liver transplants and six died.<\/p>\n

More than 20 other countries have reported hundreds more cases in total, though the largest numbers have been in the U.K. and U.S.<\/p>\n

Symptoms of hepatitis \u2014 or inflammation of the liver \u2014 include fever, fatigue, loss of appetite, nausea, vomiting, abdominal pain, dark urine, light-colored stools, joint pain and jaundice.<\/p>\n

The scope of the problem only started to become clear last month, though disease detectives say they have been working on the mystery for months. It\u2019s been maddeningly difficult to nail a cause down, experts say.<\/p>\n

Conventional causes of liver inflammation in otherwise healthy kids \u2014 the viruses known as hepatitis A, B, C, D and E \u2014 didn\u2019t show up in tests. What\u2019s more, the children came from different places and there seemed to be no common exposures.<\/p>\n

What did show up was adenovirus 41. More than half of the U.S. cases have tested positive for adenovirus, of which there are dozens of varieties. In a small number of specimens tested to see what kind of adenovirus was present, adenovirus 41 came up every time.<\/p>\n

The fact that adenovirus keeps showing up strengthens the case for it playing a role, but it\u2019s unclear how, Dr. Jay Butler, the CDC\u2019s deputy director for infectious diseases, told The Associated Press.<\/p>\n

Many adenoviruses are associated with common cold symptoms, such as fever, sore throat and pink eye. Some versions \u2014 including adenovirus 41 \u2014 can trigger other problems, including inflammation in the stomach and intestines. Adenoviruses previously have been linked to hepatitis in children, but mostly in kids with weakened immune systems.\u00a0CLICK HERE TO JOIN OUR WHATSAPP GROUP<\/em>.<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Recent genetic analysis has turned up no evidence that a single new mutant version of the virus is to blame, said Dr. Umesh Parashar, chief of the CDC group focused on viral gut diseases.<\/p>\n

Adenovirus infections are not systematically tracked in the U.S., so it\u2019s not clear if there\u2019s been some recent surge in virus activity. In fact, adenoviruses are so common that researchers aren\u2019t sure what to make of their presence in these cases.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf we start testing everybody for the adenovirus, they will find so many kids\u201d that have it, said Dr. Heli Bhatt, a pediatric gastroenterologist who treated two Minnesota children with the liver problems.<\/p>\n

One was a child who came in nearly five months ago with liver failure. Doctors couldn\u2019t figure why. Unfortunately, \u201cnot having a cause is something that happens,\u201d Bhatt said. Roughly a third of acute liver failure cases go unexplained, experts have estimated.<\/p>\n

Bhatt said the second child she saw got sick last month. By that time, health officials had been drawing attention to cases, and she and other doctors began going back and reviewing unexplained illnesses since October.<\/p>\n

Indeed, many cases added to the tally in the last few weeks were not recent illnesses but rather earlier ones that were re-evaluated. About 10% of the U.S. cases occurred in May, Butler said. The rate seems to be relatively flat since the fall, he added.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s possible that doctors are merely discovering a phenomenon that\u2019s been going on for years, some scientists said.<\/p>\n

COVID-19 vaccination has been ruled out because \u201cthe vast majority of these children are unvaccinated,\u201d Butler explained.<\/p>\n

But past infection with the coronavirus itself might be factor, scientists say.<\/p>\n

The CDC recently estimated that, as of February, 75% of U.S. children had been infected.<\/p>\n

Only 10% to 15% of the children with the mysterious hepatitis had COVID-19, according to nasal swab tests given when they checked into a hospital, health officials say.<\/p>\n

But investigators are wondering about previous coronavirus infections. It\u2019s possible that coronavirus particles lurking in the gut are playing a role, said Petter Brodin, a pediatric immunologist at Imperial College London.<\/p>\n

In a piece earlier this month in the medical journal Lancet, Brodin and another scientist suggested that a combination of lingering coronavirus and an adenovirus infection could trigger a liver-damaging immune system reaction.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think it\u2019s an unfortunate combination of circumstances that could explain this,\u201d Brodin told the AP.<\/p>\n

Butler said researchers have seen complex reactions like that before, and investigators are discussing ways to better check out the hypothesis.<\/p>\n

He said it was \u201cnot out of the realm of plausibility, at all.\u201d\u00a0CLICK HERE TO JOIN OUR WHATSAPP GROUP<\/em>.<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

A Case Western Reserve University preprint study, which has yet to be peer reviewed, suggested children who had COVID-19 had a significantly higher risk of liver damage.<\/p>\n

Dr. Markus Buchfellner, a pediatric infectious diseases doctor at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, was involved in the identification of the first U.S. cases in the fall.<\/p>\n

The illnesses were \u201cweird\u201d and concerning, he said. Six months later, \u201cwe don\u2019t really know exactly what we\u2019re dealing with.\u201d<\/p>\n

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