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Liver Disease Spreading in UK & US; Worrisome
By Dana Malcolm
Staff Writer
#April 22, 2022 – In an extremely worrying trend cases of unexplainable liver disease in healthy children have spread to the EU and the US.
It was first detected on children in the United Kingdom when previously healthy children started presenting with
They tested negative for the viruses that cause infectious hepatitis. Doctors have no concrete explanation for what is causing the damage so far 74 children in Britain have fallen ill and now children in the US and Europe are following suit with children in Denmark, Ireland, the Netherlands and Spain.
“mild hepatitis is very common in children for following a range viral infections but what is being seen at the moment is quite different.”
The expert said he was not convinced COVID was behind the infection because of the relatively small number of infections. British health officials say none of the infected children were vaccinated ruling out any link to vaccines.