As health officials in more than a dozen countries look into the mystery, they are asking:
— Has there been some surge in the stomach bug — called adenovirus 41 — that is causing more cases of a previously undetected problem?
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— Are children more susceptible due to pandemic-related lockdowns that sheltered them from the viruses kids usually experience?
— Is there some mutated version of the adenovirus causing this? Or some other not-yet-identified germ, drug or toxin?
— Is it some kind of haywire immune system reaction set off by a past COVID-19 infection and a later invasion by some other virus?
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