The surge of hepatitis cases in young children could be due to a lack of exposure to a common virus during Covid restrictions, experts have suggested.
Health officials are urgently investigating the rise in cases which has led to more than 100 children needing hospital care and liver transplants for 10 British children.
Since the start of the year, 111 children have required hospital care for liver inflammation (hepatitis), with the majority of cases occurring among children under the age of five.
