These scientific publications are authored or co-authored by CDC scientists and/or funded by CDC’s Global Immunization Division, Center for Global Health. 2022 Assessing the impact of the routine childhood hepatitis B immunization program and the need for hepatitis B vaccine birth dose in Sierra Leone, 2018. Breakwell L, Marke D, […]
The FDA has authorized the first nonprescription diagnostic test that can identify multiple viruses that cause COVID-19–like respiratory symptoms, including respiratory syncytial virus (RSV). FDA officials see it as another step toward diagnostic testing at home for certain viruses. In addition to SARS-CoV-2 and RSV, the Labcorp Seasonal Respiratory Virus […]
The CDC is investigating 180 reports of unexplained acute hepatitis among pediatric patients in 36 states and territories, including 5 deaths, over the past 7 months, the agency announced on May 18. Nine percent of the patients required liver transplants. About 340 additional cases have been reported worldwide, according to a May […]
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 […]
A chain of events possibly triggered by unrecognized infection with the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus could be causing the mysterious cases of severe hepatitis reported in hundreds of young children around the world, researchers suggest. Children with COVID-19 are at significantly increased risk for liver dysfunction afterward, according to a report posted […]
The CDC says 180 children in the United States have been diagnosed with unexplained acute hepatitis, up from 109 cases 2 weeks ago. Most of those newly counted cases were “retrospective” patients, the CDC said in a Wednesday update on the outbreak. “Since CDC’s investigation looks at patients reported back to October […]
Sin caer en pánico, pero sin perder el sentido de alerta, el organismo médico pidió a los padres estar sumamente atentos TIJUANA.- Los 21 casos de hepatitis aguda infantil registrados en México, de acuerdo a cifras de la Organización Mundial de la Salud (OMS), deben alertar a las autoridades pero […]
