Cases of “Acute Hepatitis” in Children Increase, Science Says Lockdowns to Blame

Already had the first recorded death

Oh, good – new disease-related deaths as a result of the Bill Gates solution to the deadly coronavirus that was threatening to kill exactly as many people as the flu does every year.

They’re blaming lockdowns, which could be part of it. That’s really bad enough, no?

But I think we all know what’s behind the rise in every disease and condition.

Gotta admit – falling back to “no, it’s not the vaccine, it’s the lockdowns” is really kind of nuts. It’s like “yeah so then it was your response to the seasonal flu though, right?”

Metro:

Lockdown may be one of the factors behind a growing hepatitis outbreak among children that has left scientists around the world puzzled.

The UK remains at the centre of the outbreak, but seemingly unlinked cases have also been detected in 11 countries across Europe and the Americas.

The number of infected youngsters in the UK – who are mainly under 10 – had risen to 114 a few days ago, the World Health Organisation (WHO) said.

But the outbreak of the unknown strain has hit a total of 169 young patients around the world as of April 21 – with almost 10% needing liver transplants.

One patient has died, though their nationality and identity has not been revealed.

There have been no deaths here, the UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) say, but 10 children have had transplants.

Experts say the patients do not have any of the known strands of hepatitis (from A to E) but children are initially showing symptoms of diarrhoea and nausea followed by jaundice, an emergency presentation at the European Congress of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases yesterday heard.

So… they don’t actually have hepatitis, and their livers just stop functioning?

Why are they calling it “hepatitis” then?

Maybe “hepatitis” isn’t even a real disease, and is just a general modern name for chronic liver dysfunction? In fact, the word refers to both an alleged virus and a non-virus liver condition.

Such cases are extremely rare, Dr Meera Chand, the UKHSA’s director of clinical and emerging infections, suggested, adding that Scottish doctors who first detected the outbreak would normally only see four to five unknown hepatitis cases in a year.

The outbreak, first detected in Scotland, involves patients aged one month to 16 years old. Seventeen have required liver transplants.

The liver processes nutrients, filters the blood and fights infections, meaning hepatitis can be life-threatening if left untreated.

What is causing the spike in cases remains a mystery – but may be explained by Covid restrictions, which experts say has meant younger children have not been exposed to as many illnesses as previous generations.

The vax is actually mentioned here. They claim that some didn’t have the vaccine, which I don’t really believe – the names are not being released. They were nonetheless around people who had the vaccine.

A link to the coronavirus vaccine has been ruled out, however, since none of the confirmed UK cases in under 10s are known to have been vaccinated. Experts also discounted the idea that international travel or paracetamol could be factors.

A number of other theories are being considered, most notably a link to adenovirus, a family of common viruses that usually cause a range of mild illnesses – including colds, vomiting and diarrhoea.

Most people recover without complications, but hepatitis is a rare complication.

Now Dr Chand has suggested the ‘leading hypothesis’ is that adenovirus could be hitting younger children hard after they spent their ‘formative stages’ under Covid lockdowns and wearing face masks.

Explaining that adenovirus was found in 75 percent of the UK patients, Dr Chand said rates of those viruses had plunged in the early stages of the pandemic, but spiked far above previous levels after measures were lifted.

“Adenovirus” is not a specific thing.

Other possibilities include a prior infection to Covid or another illness, a co-infection with Covid or another illness and toxin, drug or environmental exposure.

A novel variant of adenovirus may also be to blame.

The UKHSA says data ‘increasingly’ suggests that adenoviruses – which have shot up among children aged one to four – are playing a major role.

The illness is commonly passed from person to person and by touching contaminated surfaces, as well as through the ‘respiratory route’.

Officials in the USA said earlier this month that they were investigating a cluster of otherwise unexplained hepatitis cases diagnosed in nine Alabama children who also tested positive for adenovirus.

They are exploring a link to one of the dozens of versions of the virus — adenovirus 41 — which is normally associated with gut inflammation.

Meanwhile, a total of 16% of the UK hepatitis cases were positive for Covid-19 – but that was expected due to current high rates of that virus.

Most of the UK cases of liver inflammation were in children under five, though a small number of cases in children over 11 are also being examined, the UKHSA added.

Assuming this is caused by respiratory problems and not vaccine problems, what is causing the respiratory problems in children, I wonder?

Oh, yeah. Right. The plastic masks children have been forced to cover their faces with for years for some reason no one explained yet.

Along with restricting breathing for most of the waking hours, these masks are filling everyone’s lungs with plastic particles.

It doesn’t matter how many children die of chronic liver failure if we are able to save one life from the coronavirus.