The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has issued a health alert to inform hospitals and doctors that a virus called parechovirus that can cause severe symptoms among young infants and newborns, is “currently circulating in the United States.”
CDC Director Rochelle Walensky made note of the alert on July 12, writing on Twitter that “clinicians should consider PeV infection in infants presenting with fever, sepsis-like syndrome or signs of neurologic involvement without other known cause.”
