Post about its disturbing spread acute hepatitis in young children, carried out by Assistant Professor of Epidemiology Gikas Majorkinis.
As the professor explained, based on the data so far, there is no immediate epidemiological relationship between children and that its expansion “there is no way to limit it”.
He also stressed that the cases that have been identified so far are only the tip of an iceberg
The teacher’s post in detail
On the magnitude of the hepatitis epidemic in children.
Evidence so far shows that children do not have a direct epidemiological link between them, and cases have been isolated in many countries.
What do we conclude from this?
1) the cause is already very widespread in many countries, there is no way to limit its spread as it will already be everywhere
2) it is a rare complication of a widespread disease, the cases we see are just the tip of the iceberg
3) the number of new diagnoses will increase in the coming days by recording milder forms of the disease as there is now vigilance and doctors are diligently looking for diagnoses. This number should not impress us.
4) the number of retrospective diagnoses will increase as cases will be found that were not initially attributed to the specific cause. This number should not impress us.
Some information about the most probable cause, Adenovirus 41
The most likely cause so far remains Adenovirus 41, a virus that has mainly gastrointestinal and less respiratory symptoms. It is an old and common pathogen, I quote a link with a 1984 publication that in a 1-year study about 8% of infantile diarrhea syndromes were due to intestinal types 40 and 41:
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/6092424/
Adenoviruses are DNA viruses, they are highly infectious and resistant to the environment.
There is no preventative or special symptomatic treatment, the vast majority of children will pass the virus lightly.
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