The correlation between pediatric hepatitis and anti-Covid vaccination is excluded . The Higher Institute of Health clarifies this in an in-depth study on acute hepatitis of mysterious origin that are affecting various children in the world: "In almost all cases in which the status is known, the affected children had not been vaccinated", he says the Iss.
Who then also considers the hypothesis - advanced by some researchers - that they are caused by an adenovirus "unlikely". "Adenovirus - specifies the ISS - is not normally associated with liver disease, in any case the one contained in the anti-Covid adenoviral vector vaccines used in some countries (in Italy AstraZeneca and Janssen), is genetically modified so as not to replicate in the cells of our organism ". Other experts argue that reduced immunity due to decreased social contacts during the pandemic could be an explanation.
Explanation that even the European Center for Disease Prevention and Control (Ecdc) is unable to give at the moment: "The only thing we can say at the moment is that the impact is serious, given the number of children who develop severe disease in some cases also requiring liver transplantation ”, said the director of the ECDC Andrea Ammon.
In total, around 190 cases are reported in the world. The onset of the disease was first reported in the UK in early April and has since been identified in at least 12 countries globally. The cases are not related to the typical viruses usually linked to this condition, namely the hepatitis A, B, C, D and E.
(Unioneonline / L)
