A child has died with hepatitis following a mystery spike among kids in the UK.
Hepatitis infections among children have risen rapidly in twelve countries, with a majority of those cases being found in Britain and Northern Ireland, according to the World Health Organisation.
At least 169 cases have been reported to the WHO, with 114 of those reported across the UK, the Mirror reports.
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And 17 children have also had to have liver transplants in a bid to save their lives.
Health authorities around the world are currently investigating the mysterious increase in severe cases of hepatitis - which causes inflammation of the liver.
The WHO confirmed that at least one child had died following an increase of acute hepatitis of unknown origin, but gave no additional details of the death, and did not say in which country the death had occurred.
The WHO said acute cases of hepatitis of unknown origin had been reported in the United Kingdom, the United States, Spain, Israel, Denmark, Ireland, the Netherlands, Italy, Norway, France, Romania and Belgium as of April 21.
The age range of the cases reported were in children aged from one month to 16 years.
Health officials in the US have sent out an alert warning doctors to be on the lookout for symptoms of paediatric hepatitis, which could possibly be linked to a cold virus.
A common cold virus known as an adenovirus had been detected in at least 74 of the cases, and Covid-19 had been found in 20 others, according to the WHO.
