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Watoto wengi nchini Uingereza na Marekani wameathirika na ugonjwa usio wa kawaida unaosababisha uvimbe wenye kuhusishwa na #CoronaVirus
Watoto 100 nchini Uingereza wameathirika na utafiti unaonesha kwamba dalili kama hizo zimeonekana kwa watoto wa sehemu nyengine barani Ulaya
Dkt Mike Ryna Mkurugenzi wa WHO amesema kadiri visa vya #CoronaVirus vinavyoongezeka ndivyo dalili zaidi zinavyozidi kutokea
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A newly identified condition called multi-system inflammatory syndrome in children (MIS-C) is “a bit of a confused picture” right now, Dr. Maria Van Kerkhove, the World Health Organization (WHO) technical lead on Covid-19, said Friday.
“We know so far, very little about this inflammatory syndrome,” she said.
Van Kerkhove said WHO has put out a case definition, describing what symptoms may look like.
“We need to have clinicians use this case definition to determine how many children fit that definition, and then we need specific data collected from each of those patients,” she said at a news briefing.
“What we don't know yet is whether those rare things that happen are associated directly with the virus — and the virus directly attacking the cells and those organs — or is what we are seeing also the result of the immune response to the virus?" he said.
Ryan likened this to what happens with the Ebola virus and bleeding: “It's not the virus that causes the bleeding. it's very often the immune response to the presence of the virus that depletes the capacity of the blood to clot. So when a person bleeds, the bleeding continues," Ryan said.
Ryan also said as the number of global coronavirus cases grows, “you start to potentially notice much more rarer syndromes.”
Watoto 100 nchini Uingereza wameathirika na utafiti unaonesha kwamba dalili kama hizo zimeonekana kwa watoto wa sehemu nyengine barani Ulaya
Dkt Mike Ryna Mkurugenzi wa WHO amesema kadiri visa vya #CoronaVirus vinavyoongezeka ndivyo dalili zaidi zinavyozidi kutokea
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A newly identified condition called multi-system inflammatory syndrome in children (MIS-C) is “a bit of a confused picture” right now, Dr. Maria Van Kerkhove, the World Health Organization (WHO) technical lead on Covid-19, said Friday.
“We know so far, very little about this inflammatory syndrome,” she said.
Van Kerkhove said WHO has put out a case definition, describing what symptoms may look like.
“We need to have clinicians use this case definition to determine how many children fit that definition, and then we need specific data collected from each of those patients,” she said at a news briefing.
It’s not clear if the syndrome is what’s called a post-viral syndrome, or a direct result of infection, said Dr. Mike Ryan, executive director of WHO’s Health Emergencies Program.
“What we don't know yet is whether those rare things that happen are associated directly with the virus — and the virus directly attacking the cells and those organs — or is what we are seeing also the result of the immune response to the virus?" he said.
Ryan likened this to what happens with the Ebola virus and bleeding: “It's not the virus that causes the bleeding. it's very often the immune response to the presence of the virus that depletes the capacity of the blood to clot. So when a person bleeds, the bleeding continues," Ryan said.
Ryan also said as the number of global coronavirus cases grows, “you start to potentially notice much more rarer syndromes.”
