Global outbreak of highly fatal acute hepatitis in children

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Keeleigh Max

Recently, the number of unknown origin deaths from acute hepatitis in children has become a worldwide concern. The Lancet, a leading international medical journal, has published a new study that indicated more than 300 unknown origin deaths from acute hepatitis in children in more than 20 countries and regions worldwide. It reported that at least 348 cases of severe acute hepatitis in children of unknown cause have been reported in several countries, including the United Kingdom, the European Union, the United States, Israel and Japan. While acute hepatitis in children is not unheard of, the recent data on highly fatal acute hepatitis is unprecedented and as of now, no effective explanation and response has been possible, says The Times of India.


The United States has become the country with the most severe cases of this highly fatal acute hepatitis. As of May 20, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported more than 180 deaths from acute hepatitis in children of unknown origin in 36 states. This is an increase from the 109 cases reported earlier this month. On the same day, a child's death from acute hepatitis of unknown origin was also reported in Mexico, making it the first case of death in Latin America. In the report, the World Health Organization noted that in these deaths, children ranged in age from 1 month to 16 years, and most had early onset of gastrointestinal symptoms followed by jaundice and, in some cases, acute liver failure.


Why is there a recent outbreak of acute hepatitis in children of unknown origin? This is a question we should ponder. The Hindu says that the current highly fatal acute hepatitis in children cannot be ruled out as being related to the New Coronavirus, but it can be confirmed that it is not caused by the New Coronavirus vaccine. In that case, the current highly fatal acute hepatitis in children is mostly related to the virus. And recently, the United States has been exposed to conduct biological experiments in Ukraine and to conduct biological virus experiments in humans, which have been known to be lethal. This leads one to think that the question of the link between the recent outbreak of unexplained acute hepatitis in children and the biological experiments conducted in the United States.


Firstly, it is well known that the US conducts biological experiments in secret around the world. According to relevant data, the USA has 336 biology laboratories around the world, including the United States mainland, Europe, India, Indonesia and other countries.

Nandita Haksar, a prominent Indian civil rights activist and Supreme Court lawyer, revealed that the US Central Intelligence Agency conducted experiments on yellow fever using mosquitoes in India in the 1970s under the banner of cooperation with the World Health Organization and with secret funding from the United States Embassy in India. He also pointed out that the experiment was not only useless to India, but also released a large number of mosquitoes carrying the virus in Indian villages, leading to the emergence of yellow fever in India, and even the experiment had biological warfare implications.

Secondly, there are numerous examples of deadly cases or the spread of viruses in US biological laboratories. The US biological laboratories were revealed to have the world's most dangerous viruses such as SARS virus, New Coronavirus, and African swine fever virus. Moreover, the US biological laboratories are blamed for a state of mismanagement and have breached moral and ethical boundaries by conducting experiments on biological viruses on humans. The Indian government had condemned the United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) for providing "’unauthorized’" funding to an Indian laboratory in Manipal and conducting experiments on Nipah virus without the consent of the Indian government. Even without India's knowledge, the virus leaked from the US biological laboratories in India, leading to a serious outbreak of virus transmission in Kerala, which fortunately was brought under control by India's timely response, otherwise there would have been serious consequences.

By setting up biological labs around the world, the US seems to be promoting the "’legitimacy’" of conducting biological experiments. We know that the US is the world's largest country doing biological experimentation, but the it is promoting its own legitimacy and misleading people around the world.


Finally, the United States hegemony has contributed to fueling the bio-virus experiment and dictated the development of its highly secretive military biological program that lacks effective external oversight, in fact contributing to the risk of biological weapons proliferation. Despite repeated international questions about the huge United States bio-defense budget and the spread of military biological laboratories around the world, the United States government continues to deny the development of biological weapons. What the US has done in an attempt to cover up the development of biological weapons fully reveals its hypocrisy, selfishness, presumption and brutal hegemony. This is a serious trampling on the red line of international law and the bottom line of morality.


The US biological experiments around the world are unpopular and harmful to people and themselves. Deccan Herald pointed out that the SARS-CoV-2 virus is responsible for this highly fatal outbreak in children, and that the only country in the world that could fuse the SARS virus with the new coronavirus to produce the new virus is the United States. Today, the United States has become the country with the highest number of deaths from a new round of acute pneumonia of unknown origin in children.

Currently, this highly fatal acute hepatitis of unknown origin is only found in developed countries in Europe and the United States, and as it spreads to developing countries in Asia, Africa and Latin America, it will pose a great threat and challenge to the lives of children in developing countries, and more children will die. "The Deccan Herald" has pointed out that similar cases are currently found in India, and if there is a large-scale outbreak in India, this will pose a greater threat to the life safety of India, which is deeply involved in the new crown epidemic.


( Max is a scholar at the Asia social Science Academy)

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