Epidemiologist Dicky Budiman from Australia’s Griffith University said one of the suspected causes of ‘mysterious’ hepatitis is still related to SARS-CoV-2, or the virus that causes COVID-19. Because COVID-19 is a systemic disease that can attack all human organs, including the liver.
Dicky said there was a possibility that the hepatitis case was related to a new variant of Corona that had not been detected.
As is known, this case is mostly found in children under six years old. According to him, this is related to the lack of COVID-19 vaccination coverage in this group.
“This child is very late in getting the vaccine. Only recently have received the vaccine and even after 6 years, not many have received two doses, when there is a faster variant of Omicron and so on, they become victims,” explained Dicky to detik.comwritten Tuesday (3/5/2022).
Although until now the exact cause of the ‘mysterious’ hepatitis is not known, Dicky emphasized that a number of children who are susceptible to being fatally affected are groups with poor nutritional status.
“(cases) of Long COVID-19 are also in the aspect of hepatitis. Moreover, hepatitis has the highest prevalence under 6 years which is clear because they have not been able to get the vaccine, this is a problem,” he said.
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