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    Mystery liver disease kills three more children in Indonesia

    SVG-TV AdminBy SVG-TV AdminMay 3, 2022Updated:May 3, 2022No Comments2 Mins Read
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    Three children in Indonesia have died from a mysterious liver disease, the country’s health ministry said, raising to at least four the global death toll of a fatal ailment puzzling doctors from the US to Asia.

    This severe strain of acute hepatitis has been identified in nearly 170 children across 11 countries in recent weeks — raising concerns from the World Health Organization (WHO) of the disease’s “unknown origin”.

    The symptoms afflicting the children include nausea, vomiting, diarrhoea and abdominal pain — before their livers showed signs of inflammation. At least one death was previously reported.

    Indonesia’s Health Ministry said that three children had died in hospitals in the capital Jakarta last month, after displaying some of these symptoms.

    The children — aged two, eight, and 11 — also had fever, jaundice, convulsions and loss of consciousness, the ministry’s spokesperson Siti Nadia Tarmizi told AFP.

    “At the moment, we suspect the cases as acute hepatitis but we need to confirm that they are not due to known hepatitis viruses A, B, C, D, and Rb,” Tarmizi said.

    She added that the Health Ministry was currently investigating the cause of the disease by running a full panel of virus tests.

    The ministry also called on parents to immediately take their children to hospital if they showed any sign of the symptoms.

    The emergence of a possible new disease afflicting only young children — most are under the age of 10 with no underlying conditions — has sent ripples of concern through a global health community already grappling with Covid-19.

    The WHO said that, in Britain, there was an “unexpected significant increase” in cases among young, previously healthy children, as well as in Ireland and the Netherlands.

    In the United States, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention published a study Friday on a cluster in Alabama, where nine children had also tested positive for a common pathogen called adenovirus 41.

    The pathogen is known to cause gastroenteritis in children, but “it is not usually known as a cause of hepatitis in otherwise healthy children”, the agency had said.

    Adenoviruses are commonly spread by close personal contact, respiratory droplets and surfaces. There are more than 50 types of adenoviruses, which most commonly cause the cold, but also many other diseases.

    Source: Guardian

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