CDC HAN Alert: Adenovirus Testing and Reporting of Children with Acute Hepatitis

4/21/22 — The CDC issued a Health Alert Network (HAN) Health Advisory to notify clinicians and public health authorities of a cluster of children identified with hepatitis and adenovirus infection at a large children’s hospital in Alabama. Nine children have been admitted to that hospital with hepatitis and adenovirus infection between October 2021 and February 2022. All of the children were previously healthy and none had COVID-19. US clinicians who may encounter pediatric patients with hepatitis of unknown etiology should consider adenovirus testing and reporting of such cases to state public health authorities and to CDC. Read the CDC HAN Alert.