The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is issuing this Health Alert Network (HAN) Health Advisory to notify clinicians and public health authorities of a cluster of children identified with hepatitis and adenovirus infection.
From the CDC:
This Health Advisory serves to notify US clinicians who may encounter pediatric patients with hepatitis of unknown etiology to consider adenovirus testing and to elicit reporting of such cases to state public health authorities and to CDC. Nucleic acid amplification testing (NAAT, e.g. PCR) is preferred for adenovirus detection and may be performed on respiratory specimens, stool or rectal swabs, or blood.
JUST IN: The CDC is investigating the deaths of five children linked to the growing number of mysterious pediatric hepatitis cases across the country. https://t.co/jbfS3BBESL
— NBC News (@NBCNews) May 6, 2022
The CDC is investigating more than 100 cases of children with hepatitis of unknown cause, including five deaths, in 25 states https://t.co/DDSVT5UWxA
— CNN (@CNN) May 6, 2022
BREAKING: CDC Investigating more than 100 cases of Mysterious Unexplained Hepatitis in Children Including Now 5 Deathshttps://t.co/yUlssAqgif
— BNO|Medriva Newsroom (@medriva) May 6, 2022
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