Coronavirus is not the cause of the mysterious outbreak of childhood hepatitis Scientists from the University of Oxford in the UK have refuted the findings of a small-scale Israeli study. Its authors argued that COVID-19 is almost one hundred percent likely to be the cause of a mysterious outbreak of hepatitis in different countries of the world among children..

According to scientists from Israel, in which 5 cases of childhood hepatitis were recorded, the disease was, with a high degree of probability, provoked by a previous coronavirus disease suffered by all children.. Israeli scientists were so sure that it was the coronavirus that provoked children's hepatitis that they even called it "

But experts from Oxford University denied the results of the Israeli study.. They emphasize that whatever the causes of unexplained hepatitis in children, the tiny (only 5 cases) observations carried out by scientists from Israel do not give any convincing answer to this question.. You can’t call coronavirus the cause of childhood hepatitis just because now this is the most likely explanation..

Experts from Oxford criticized their Israeli colleagues, who attached the name “long liver covid” to childhood hepatitis, and urged them to better “learn materiel”. Although rare, hepatitis can cause liver failure in children.. In recent months, an unusually high incidence of this rare ailment for young patients has been recorded in the world, and so far scientists cannot convincingly explain what this is connected with..

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