ATHENS—Greece reported its first baby death from severe acute hepatitis on Wednesday, the country’s national health agency EODY said. The 13-month-old baby had been hospitalized with a high fever and was later diagnosed with liver failure and cerebral edema due to severe acute hepatitis, the agency said. An outbreak of severe hepatitis in young children […]
A senator plans to make California what he calls a “trans sanctuary” state. One parent—the mother of a de-transitioned daughter—is vocally opposing it. A family is filing a lawsuit against a strawberry producer for allegedly infecting them with Hepatitis. San Francisco’s controversial Tenderloin Center is set to close by the end of the year. The […]
WASHINGTON—Food safety regulators in the United States and Canada are investigating a Hepatitis A outbreak potentially linked to tainted organic strawberries that has sickened 17 people in the United States and 10 in Canada, the agencies said. Fifteen illnesses were reported in California, and one each in Minnesota and North Dakota, the U.S. Food and […]
Health officials have received reports of hundreds of children across 33 countries, including the United States, diagnosed with acute hepatitis of unknown origin that is clinically more severe than previous similar cases and with a higher proportion of young patients developing liver failure. The World Health Organization (WHO) said in a May 27 statement that […]
NEW YORK—Health officials remain perplexed by mysterious cases of severe liver damage in hundreds of young children around the world. The best available evidence points to a fairly common stomach bug that isn’t known to cause liver problems in otherwise healthy children. That virus was detected in the the blood of stricken children but—oddly—it has […]
As adult viral hepatitis infections are on the rise in 22 states, some experts attribute the outbreaks to an increase in homelessness and the opioid crisis. Within the states experiencing a relentless growth in hepatitis A, the highest number of reports are in Ohio (3,766), Tennessee (3,167), Indiana (2,660), South Carolina (2,233), and Georgia (1,990). […]
The Georgia Department of Public Health (GDPH) confirmed on May 11 that of the 109 cases of hepatitis diagnosed in children throughout the United States, “several suspect cases have been reported” in Georgia. “They all remain under investigation at this time,” Nancy Nydam, media relations for GDPH, told The Epoch Times. Nydam gave no specific […]
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) stated last week that it’s investigating more than 100 mysterious hepatitis cases among children in at least 25 states. Most of the children have been hospitalized, and five deaths have been reported thus far. The CDC has issued a health advisory to doctors and clinics so that […]
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is investigating more than 100 cases of a mysterious form of hepatitis in children, saying that five have died so far. Dr. Jay Butler, the CDC’s deputy director of infectious diseases, said during a briefing said the agency is investigating 109 cases of acute hepatitis, or […]
At least 10 more states across the United States are reporting similar cases of severe acute hepatitis—liver disease of unknown origin—after the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) issued a national health alert regarding a mysterious cluster of the virus on April 21. The cases involve previously healthy children between the ages of 1 month to 16 years […]
A report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) appeared to rule out COVID-19 and COVID-19 vaccines as factors in the mysterious cases of hepatitis among children in Alabama. The CDC report, published Friday, said that none of the Alabama children tested positive for COVID-19 when they were taken to the hospital. None also […]
Around 200 cases of mysterious acute hepatitis—sudden-onset liver disease of unknown origin—in children have been confirmed in recent months across over a dozen countries around the world. Similar such cases have also in recent days been reported in Canada and Japan. These cases of hepatitis involve children aged 1 month to 16 years old, many […]
Health officials in the UK say they are focusing on a possible adenovirus link to cases of severe hepatitis—or liver inflammation—in children. There have been at least 169 cases of “acute hepatitis of unknown origin” recorded worldwide, and one death, while 10 children in the UK alone have needed liver transplants. Hepatitis can be life-threatening […]
Russia says it plans to take full control of Donbas and southern Ukraine during the second phase of what it calls its special military operation. On Thursday Russia claimed victory over Mariupol. Now it appears they’re collecting the dead bodies.
Drawn by rumors on social media, queues of hopeful men have been forming outside the Russian embassy in Ethiopia’s capital Addis Ababa. Their hope? To enlist to fight for Russia in Ukraine.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention issued a health advisory after children in Alabama were found to have adenovirus and hepatitis infections. The agency said that a “cluster of children” have been infected with both hepatitis and adenovirus.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) issued a health advisory after children in Alabama were discovered to have adenovirus and hepatitis infections. They said that a “cluster of children” have been infected with both hepatitis and adenovirus after clinicians at a large hospital in Alabama issued a notice to the CDC in November […]
LONDON—Health officials say they have detected more cases of a mysterious liver disease in children that was first identified in Britain, with new infections spreading to Europe and the United States. Last week, British officials reported 74 cases of hepatitis, or liver inflammation, found in children since January. The usual viruses that cause infectious hepatitis […]
Authorities from the World Health Organization (WHO) and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) are investigating reported cases of severe hepatitis—liver inflammation—in children in Alabama and the United Kingdom. The Alabama Department of Public Health announced on April 15 that it has been investigating “an increase in hepatitis in young children” since November […]
A health alert regarding possible infections of hepatitis B, hepatitis C, and HIV was sent to more than 3,778 patients who visited the HealthPlus Surgery Center in New Jersey. The New Jersey Department of Health and HealthPlus recommend patients who visited the HealthPlus between Jan. 1, and Sept. 7, get blood tests—although the risk of […]
Health officials have said more than 3,000 patients at a New Jersey surgery center may have been exposed to hepatitis B, hepatitis C, and HIV pathogens. Patients who had procedures done at the HealthPlus Surgery Center in Saddle Brook, New Jersey, between January and Sept. 7 of this year may have been exposed to the bloodborne […]
