Mysterious hepatitis outbreak in kids in 2022 linked to common childhood respiratory virus, studies suggest | CNN

Although the researchers can’t say for sure, the timing of the outbreak may have been associated with the global loosening of Covid-19 pandemic restrictions after periods of relative isolation.

           

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1ºSheena Childers Russell Children in about 35 countries, including the United States, experienced severe hepatitis that caused 50 kids to need liver transplants and 22 children to die, according to the study led by researchers at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF).
- Children who had returned to school were more susceptible to these severe infections.

For a small subset of these children, getting more than one infection at the same time may have made them more vulnerable to severe hepatitis, the investigators found.

“We were surprised by the fact that the infections we detected in these children were caused not by an unusual, emerging virus, but by common childhood viral pathogens,” said senior study author Dr. Charles Chiu, director of the UCSF Clinical Microbiology Laboratory.
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