'It's important that parents know the likelihood of their child developing hepatitis is extremely low.'
says there is "some apparent reduction in confirmed cases in the past two weeks overall in the UK".
However, it's very unusual for adenovirus to be a cause of severe hepatitis in otherwise healthy children, but it has been circulating at high levels since the start of the year after virtually disappearing during the pandemic. Another possibility is that the pandemic, by delaying young children's exposure to a number of different viruses because of reduced social mixing, may have made them more prone to becoming ill.
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