North Carolina has doubled the total number of hepatitis cases, from four to nine, as mysterious infections occur across the country. State health officials released updated figures Wednesday night, WRAL reported. North Carolina was one of the first states to report the disease late last month. In total, the United States registered 115 confirmed or …
With five deaths and more than 100 reported cases in the United States, Hawaii has become the 25th state to begin investigating the mysterious hepatitis case in a child under the age of ten. The state Department of Health said the boy was hospitalized in late April with diarrhea and fever in Maui, his second-largest …
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Seven more cases of hepatitis have been identified in Ohio, one child is in need of a liver transplant, and doctors say there are 40 in the United States, including one in Wisconsin. All children ranged in age from 18 months to 10 years and were treated at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital. Today, North Dakota also …
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South Dakota is now investigating pediatric hepatitis, the twelfth state to report the disease – after a child died of the disease in Wisconsin. State health officials said the patient was under the age of 10 and lived in Brown County on the North Dakota border. This represents at least 32 confirmed or suspected cases …
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