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Well, a few weeks ago, we got an alert from the World Health Organization.

This is specifically from disease outbreak news.

And just a word to the wise, if you're looking to sort of ease your way into sleep,

this is not the resource that I would suggest.

Disease outbreak news really lists off the different alerts that the World Health Organization is

looking at around the world.

So it's something serious.

It's something we pay attention to.

We don't chase heavy headline from it, but we do pay attention to it.

And so the title of this particular alert was acute severe hepatitis of unknown origin in children.

And so that's enough of a title to get your attention, acute, severe hepatitis of unknown origin in children. And so this alert, and again,

there was a little bit of an update to this, this has happened in April, documented about 160 plus

cases of this acute hepatitis.

It was in several countries, so not just located in one.

Let me just give you a couple examples, the United Kingdom, Ireland, Spain, Israel, the United States, Denmark, and beyond.

It happened in kids one month old to 16 years old, so infants until teenagers.

And there was a couple different symptoms that were

associated with it. We're going to talk a little bit about. But nothing in particular necessarily

as a parent, and I'm speaking personally here, that would make alarm bells go off until the infection

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