Adenovirus

New Delhi: India experienced a modest decline in daily covid-19 cases, with 7,000 new infections reported on Tuesday, down from the average 10,000 daily cases. However, hospitals across major cities such as Mumbai, Delhi, Bengaluru, and…

British researchers reported a breakthrough Monday in mysterious hepatitis cases affecting young children, finding the serious liver condition was linked to co-infection of two common viruses, but not the coronavirus.  ​The World Health Organization (WHO) has reported at least 1,010 probable cases, including 46 that required transplants and 22 deaths from the illness dating back to last October.​Previous theories had centered on a spike in commonly found adenovirus infections being behind the cases.​But in two new…

Physicians at pediatric liver centers in the United Kingdom have been meeting regularly to work out how best to care for children with a mysterious hepatitis that has afflicted at least 176 children in the United Kingdom and more than 500 worldwide. But they can’t agree. “It’s proving immensely difficult to get everyone to agree how on Earth to manage these children,” says Will Irving, a virologist at the University of Nottingham. At the center of the debate are conflicting…

1. When was it first reported and how many have been affected so far?  The first U.S. cases were identified at an Alabama hospital in October 2021, when five children were admitted with liver damage from an unknown cause. The World Health Organization was notified on April 5 about 10 cases in previously healthy children in Scotland. Three days later, 74 cases had been identified in the U.K.  Most of the 169 cases have been detected in the U.K. - at 114 as of April 21 - followed by 13 in Spain,…