Spike in child hepatitis cases linked to common virus
UK child hepatitis cases rise to 108, with a common virus increasingly likely to be the trigger. …
UKHSA’s chief medical advisor, Professor Susan Hopkins, says that officials were still looking at a range of possible factors that could be behind the increase, but “the most likely” trigger was an adenovirus – a group of common viruses which usually cause colds, vomiting and diarrhoea in children.
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