US warns doctors to look for hepatitis in children as probe widens

US health officials have sent out nationwide alert warning doctors to be on the lookout for symptoms of paediatric hepatitis, possibly linked with a cold virus, as part of a wider probe into unexplained cases of severe liver inflammation in young children.

The warning follows investigations in the United States and Europe of clusters of hepatitis in young children.

The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said...