Liver Disease Outbreaks in Kids , Spread From U.K. to U.S. and EU.<br />Hepatitis has been detected in 74 children by health practitioners in Britain.<br />The cases were documented during the second week of April.<br />Now, the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control states that more cases of the same hepatitis have been detected in kids in at least four EU countries.<br />The countries include Ireland, Denmark, Spain and the Netherlands.<br />Nine cases have been detected in the U.S., all in AL and all in children between the ages of one and six.<br />While health officials say that mild hepatitis is commonly found in kids.<br />this particular form of hepatitis was not caused by any of the viruses that usually lead to an infection.<br />Mild hepatitis is very common in children following a range of viral infections, but what is being seen at the moment is quite different, Graham Cooke, Imperial College London, via AP.<br />Health officials suspect that an adenovirus is causing the hepatitis infections in these children.<br />Hepatitis is described basically as an infection of the liver.<br />Symptoms of the infection are abdominal pain, diarrhea and jaundice.<br />Hepatitis can lead to death if it is not properly addressed.<br />Some of the children with the infection in the U.K. have required extensive care at health units that cater specifically to liver ailments.<br />A few have even required liver transplants.<br />According to the U.N. health agency, more cases of hepatitis in children will likely be detected
