After the coronavirus epidemic, this time there is a mysterious hepatitis panic. In Indonesia, 3 children died in April due to mysterious hepatitis (liver inflammation).
3 CHILDREN LOSE LIVES
According to the news of Bloomberg, based on the Indonesian Ministry of Health, children with symptoms such as nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, fever and loss of consciousness in April were admitted to a hospital in the capital, Jakarta.
Three children with hepatitis virus of unknown origin died in the hospital.
Families were asked to take their children with these symptoms to the hospital immediately.
CIRCULAR PUBLISHED IN THE COUNTRY
The Ministry has also issued a circular on a nationwide health screening for the disease.
Meanwhile, a 10-month-old baby who was hospitalized in Singapore on April 25 was diagnosed with hepatitis.
It was learned that Kovid-19 was detected in the baby in December 2021.
According to the World Health Organization (WHO), at least 4 children have died worldwide due to hepatitis.
WHO Researcher Dr. Philippa Easterbrook, at the press conference on April 29, announced that the hepatitis virus has been seen in 170 children aged 1 month to 16 years in 16 countries so far.
MYSTERIOUS CASE OF HEPATITIS
WHO, in a written statement on April 16, announced that 74 children in England had detected the hepatitis virus of unknown origin.
According to WHO, at least 170 children have been infected with the virus so far, while this figure is stated as at least 190 according to the European Center for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC).
It was reported that the children in whom the virus was detected had symptoms such as jaundice, diarrhea, vomiting and abdominal pain for the last month, and 16 children were treated by liver transplantation due to severe liver inflammation.
GLOBAL EPIDEMIC PANIC
The definition of the disease as “mysterious” or “of uncertain cause” brought the Kovid-19 virus to mind, while also raising the possibility of a new “global epidemic”.
Before being named, Kovid-19 was described as a “mysterious lung condition”. (AA)