Nearly 170 children across 11 countries have developed mysterious and severe cases of hepatitis but do not have any of the five known strains of hepatitis virus. This is what we know so far.
Jaundice is a condition in which the skin, whites of the eyes and mucous membranes turn yellow.
Seventeen of the children — 10 per cent of the 169 known cases — had such severe hepatitis they needed a liver transplant, she said. It was not clear whether even more children had mild cases because their symptoms were not traceable, she told the emergency presentation.
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