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Pediatric Hepatitis Outbreak Cases are not Above Pre-COVID-19 Pandemic Levels

According to a recent Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) found current data do not suggest an increase in paediatric Hepatitis cases or adenovirus types 40/41 from the time the outbreak began compared to pre-COVID-19 pandemic levels in response to the current paediatric  outbreak possibly linked to adenovirus.

According to the CDC, “data from four major administrative databases were reviewed to determine trends in paediatric Hepatitis and the percentage of stool specimens positive for adenovirus type 40/41.” “While our ecological research cannot definitively support or disprove a possible link between paediatric  and adenovirus, it does give helpful background for the continuing inquiry.”

Pediatric Hepatitis Outbreak Cases are not Above Pre-COVID-19 Pandemic LevelsThe CDC compared data from the current Hepatitis epidemic, which lasted from October 2021 to March 2022, to a pre-COVID-19 pandemic baseline, since health-seeking behaviour might have altered in reaction to the pandemic in 2020-21. In April 2022, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) issued a health advise to report new instances of juvenile  that had no apparent cause in the United States and the United Kingdom. According to the CDC, most reported cases had positive test results for adenovirus type 41, a virus that causes gastroenteritis but not  in youngsters with a healthy immune system. “

It is uncertain if either acute Hepatitis of unknown origin or adenovirus type 41 has lately increased above historical levels,” the CDC noted.The National Syndromic Surveillance Program (NSSP), the Premier Healthcare Database Special Release (PHD-SR), the Organ Procurement and Transplant Network (OPTN), and Labcorp were used to evaluate data. NSSP gathers electronic health information from emergency departments in all 50 states and the District of Columbia, accounting for 71% of all nonfederal emergency rooms in the US.

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