Enlarge / Adenoviruses remain the leading suspect, though no cause has been identified. (credit: Getty | BSIP ) The global tally of unexplained hepatitis cases within children has reached about 400, including 11 reported deaths, according to an update from the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control . The cases come from more than […]
Enlarge / Signage outside the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) headquarters in Atlanta, Georgia, on Saturday, March 14, 2020. (credit: Bloomberg | Getty Images) The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is now investigating 109 cases of unexplained liver inflammation—hepatitis—in young children from 25 states over the past seven months. Of the 109 […]
Enlarge / Liver lesions in patient with chronic active hepatitis C. (credit: Getty | BSIP) The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has ruled out the pandemic coronavirus, SARS-CoV-2, as a possible cause of the puzzling, international outbreak of severe hepatitis (liver inflammation) in children, according to a statement released Friday. The outbreak has […]
Enlarge / Liver lesions in patient with chronic active hepatitis C. (credit: Getty | BSIP) At least one child has died of unexplained liver inflammation in a growing international outbreak of puzzling hepatitis cases in children, according to the World Health Organization. The outbreak tally has reached more than 170 cases in 12 countries and […]
Enlarge / Liver lesions in patient with chronic active hepatitis C. (credit: Getty | BSIP) The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released a health alert Thursday notifying clinicians of a US-based cluster of unexplained cases of liver inflammation in young children, which appear to be part of a puzzling international outbreak that now spans […]
Enlarge / A baby being treated with blue light, a jaundice-prevention measure. (credit: Getty | Picture Alliance) Health officials in Scotland on Thursday published early findings from a burgeoning international investigation into dozens of puzzling cases of severe liver inflammation among children. A few cases have already led to acute liver failure and liver transplants. […]
Enlarge / Adenoviruses seen via transmission electron microscopy. (credit: Getty | BSIP) Out of an abundance of caution, US officials on Tuesday recommended pausing use of Johnson & Johnson’s COVID-19 vaccine. Officials linked the vaccine to six peculiar illnesses in which people developed life-threatening blood clots in combination with low levels of blood platelets, the […]
Enlarge / Vials of the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine are seen during the opening of a vaccination center in Cyprus on March 22, 2021. (credit: Getty | Etienne Torbey) European medical regulators on Wednesday concluded that there is a strong link between AstraZeneca’s COVID-19 vaccine and life-threatening conditions involving the unusual combination of blood clots and […]
Expand / Vials at the front of this AstraZeneca British biopharmaceutical firm emblem are observed within this imaginative photograph taken on 18 November 2020. (charge: Getty| NurPhoto) AstraZeneca declared in a media launch on Monday {} COVID-19 vaccine demonstrated positive benefits in an interim evaluation of clinical trial information. The statement marks the next vaccine […]