Is Adenovirus causing a global outbreak of hepatitis in children? Because many of the early cases of hepatitis occurred in children who had recently experienced a respiratory or gastrointestinal ...

Two case series of children with unexplained acute hepatitis from the U.S. and U.K. pointed to human adenovirus viremia in most and strengthened the case for adenovirus 41 as a potential cause ...

Several cases of acute, severe hepatitis in children in Alabama provided additional evidence in support of a possible link between this illness and adenovirus, according to a report published in ...

Serious cases of hepatitis in young children, some requiring liver transplants, have been reported in Alabama, North Carolina, the United Kingdom, and Spain, and a cause has yet to be found.

Subtype 41 belongs to the adenovirus clustering that is typically associated with mild-to-moderate gastroenteritis; essentially a stomach bug with symptoms of diarrhoea, vomiting and abdominal pain.

Adenovirus has been found in some of the hepatitis cases, leading officials to investigate a possible link between the liver inflammation that the children are experiencing and the virus.

Cases of Adenovirus have been rising across the United Kingdom. According to new government data, positivity went up from 2.8% to 3.6% in the last seven days. And the data also shows that the ...