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Figures released Wednesday by the European Center for Disease Prevention and Control ECDC show that around 450 cases of unexplained hepatitis have been diagnosed worldwide. More than 100 of these cases have been counted within the European Union.
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Bron: BELGIAN
Wednesday 11 May 2022 at 17:48–
Italy (35) and Spain (22) had the highest number of cases of the mystery disease identified within the EU. In the rest of the EU countries, the number of cases remains below ten. Belgium has so far had three children with the disease. Outside the European Union, the United Kingdom has 163 infected children under the age of 16. Eleven of those children have since received a liver transplant.
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There have already been 181 cases of acute hepatitis in the rest of the world, including the United States (109), Brazil (16), Indonesia (15), Israel (12) and Canada (7). That brings the total number of unexplained hepatitis infections in the world to 450, of which eleven are known to have been killed.
In the night from Tuesday to Wednesday, the World Health Organization (WHO) reported 348 more cases of acute hepatitis.
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