Paediatric hepatitis is linked to infection with two viruses, studies find

Public health ethics: critiques of the “new normal”

“…Prolonged suppression of transmission can result in unusually large rebound epidemics and therefore increased pressure on health systems (Eden, Sikazwe et al 2022). It can also be difficult to predict which strains or variants of particular pathogens will be dominant at the time of a rebound epidemic (Eden, Sikazwe et al 2022) -if a particularly virulent strain (or combination of infections) predominates when a rebound epidemic occurs, this can lead to increased harm such as the recent epidemic of severe (sometimes fatal) viral hepatitis in children (Wise 2022).…”