The presence of hepatitis cases in nearly 200 children in the USA, England, Spain, Israel, Denmark, Ireland, Italy, Norway, France, Romania, Belgium, Netherlands and Canada brought the risk of global epidemics to the agenda. prof. Dr. Mehmet Ceyhan said that hepatitis, in general, means the bankruptcy of the liver. There are many reasons for this; Noting that the most common causes are viruses called ‘viral hepatitis’ agents, Ceyhan said, “Among them, ‘A’ type and ‘B’ type types are seen very frequently.
‘A’ type is popularly known as ‘contagious jaundice’. It is transmitted by sexual contact with food, but mostly by water contaminated with the feces of the sick person and food. What we call ‘hepatitis B’, on the other hand, is mostly transmitted through sexual contact with blood and has more serious consequences; cirrhosis, a type of this that can be in the form of cancer. The remaining ‘C’ type, ‘D’ type and ‘E’ type hepatitis are slightly less common. Turkey has been widely vaccinated against type ‘B’ since 1998 and type ‘A’ since 2011. Therefore, we started to see this type of hepatitis very rarely, but this latest virus was not a virus that we have encountered in hepatitis until now,” he said.
‘NOT DISPLAYED FROM ONE TO THE OTHER’
prof. Dr. Reminding that a total of 169 cases were reported to the World Health Organization (WHO) in this way from around the world, Ceyhan said, “114 of these were reported from England. Therefore, there was a thought that ‘it may be an causative adenovirus’, but since we know that adenovirus does not do such a thing, it is still a little bit. We are suspicious. So it is not a widely accepted phenomenon. In these cases, transmission from one to the other was not shown. All 169 cases are independent patients.
That’s why we don’t expect something like the Covid-19 epidemic to spread from one country to another. Even if it spreads, there will not be a great spread at that speed. Time will show how fast it will spread. In addition, only 20 percent of these cases have Covid-19. This is not an unexpected situation anymore, as children are already in the situation of having Covid-19 at this time. So this has nothing to do with Covid-19. This has nothing to do with Covid-19, however; When you remove the covid-19 measures, the child encounters this virus. Immunity is not enough either. As a result, there is a risk of getting sick,” he said.
‘WE DID NOT SEE IN TURKEY, WE CAN’T SAY’
prof. Dr. Ceyhan said, “We cannot say, “It has not been seen in Turkey,” and nobody can say about the risk of “mysterious hepatitis” occurring in Turkey. Firstly, adenovirus is not a notifiable disease. If you say, it can be answered because it is a notifiable disease. Every physician who sees chickenpox has to report it to the ministry, but physicians do not have to report it when adenovirus is detected. Therefore, we do not know its number. Secondly, since there is no virus that we know as the cause of hepatitis, adenovirus and adenovirus in hepatitis cases were not examined. Until now. For example, we sometimes look at respiratory tract viruses by scanning method. We have also seen 2 cases in our scan since January. But we detected another virus in them, not this adenovirus. Therefore, if the causative virus is adenovirus, we have not seen it so far, but it is related to another virus. “We’ve seen a similar case,” he said. (DHA)