US authorities lean towards a virus

Also until now, adenoviruses, relatively common viruses, were well identified as causes of hepatitis in immunocompromised children in most cases.

The Centers for Disease Prevention and Control (CDC), the country’s main federal public health agency, is still carrying out analyses. Environmental factors are always studied, specifies the national press.

Contaminations with Covid-19 or liver viruses A, B and C were however excluded.

These unknown hepatitis also concern Europefearing a new epidemic.

The European disease agency last Thursday classified the disease as “worrying public health event”.

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