One baby has died and eight have been admitted to intensive care in a mysterious cluster of infections thought to be caused by a typically harmless virus.
In total, 15 newborns in Wales and south-west England have been struck down with severe Myocarditis — inflammation of the heart — since June 2022.
One of them is still in hospital, according to an alert issued last night by the World Health Organization.
www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-12093195/15-babies-toddlers-sickened-deadly-heart-condition.html
From the WHO
Myocarditis – United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Situation at a glance
On 5 April 2023, the National IHR Focal Point for the United Kingdom informed WHO of an increase in severe myocarditis in neonates associated with enterovirus infection in Wales. Between June 2022 and April 2023, ten hospitalised neonates with a positive enterovirus Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR) test were found to have myocarditis. Seven of the ten cases had further subtyping, with either coxsackie B3 or coxsackie B4 identified. As of 5 May 2023, one patient was still hospitalised, and one had died.
Although enterovirus infections are common in neonates and young infants, the reported increase in myocarditis with severe outcomes in neonates and infants associated with enterovirus infection is unusual.
www.who.int/emergencies/disease-outbreak-news/item/2023-DON465
WHO – Myocarditis – United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland – 17 May 2023t.co/9xO8ecceER
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One baby dies and eight are left in intensive care after being struck down in 'unusual' cluster of usually-harmless infection
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