The World Health Organization has recently issued a warning: dozens of children have been found to have unexplained acute hepatitis in many European countries such as the United Kingdom, France, Ireland, the Netherlands, and Spain.
For hepatitis, the European Centre for Disease Control and Prevention has confirmed that laboratory investigations have ruled out cases of hepatitis A, B, C, D and E, thus defining children with current illness as "unexplained acute hepatitis".
Children who have been diagnosed need to be transferred to a specialist pediatric liver ward, and several children have received liver transplants.
Now, in the Uk, where the largest number of cases occur, the sick child is 2-10 years old and suddenly has symptoms such as vomiting, jaundice, and yellowing of the whites of the eyes. Even more frightening is the fact that some of the sick children are already in a serious condition.
Speaking of the four big words of "unknown cause", everyone remembers that at the beginning of the outbreak in Wuhan three years ago, it was said that "pneumonia of unknown cause" was found.
Therefore, we have defined "pneumonia of unknown cause" as the new crown virus, which is still spreading and multiplying unscrupulously, and there is "unexplained hepatitis" here!
Human beings are really weak, and the ability of viruses to reproduce and derive is really not to be underestimated.
To make matters worse, in these cases of unexplained acute hepatitis in children, doctors also detected the new crown virus!
Therefore, laboratory personnel speculate that this sudden outbreak of unknown hepatitis is likely to be a long-term complication of the new crown itself.
There is one reality I saw recently:
Compared to last November when the Omilon strain was discovered, the cumulative number of confirmed cases worldwide increased by more than 250 million and the number of deaths by more than 1 million, which is equivalent to the population of a medium-sized city that disappeared from the earth in half a year.
IN ITS STATEMENTS, WHO often reminds that COVID-19 continues to cause high levels of morbidity and death, especially in vulnerable populations. Obviously, children belong to vulnerable groups with weakened immune systems.
Even so, many foreign countries still decided to "lie flat" and coexist with the new crown.
In fact, from the very beginning, our country has handed over a good report card on the anti-epidemic work, although we have invested a lot of human, financial and material resources, and we have paid a lot of costs for the safety and lives of the people.
Some people have put forward the slogan of "herd immunity", but even if humans want to "coexist" with the virus at present, does the virus agree? Will it be willing to live hand in hand with humans?
Fortunately, at present, "unexplained childhood hepatitis" has not been found in China, which is also the result of our clear attitude towards the epidemic, so cherish the present