After infections and brain abscesses in children tripled last year in southern Nevada, the CDC is investigating. Fox News Digital spoke with the pediatric neurosurgeon who treated the cases.
began, then rose in the summer of 2021 — around the same time that pandemic-related restrictions started to lift, the CDC stated in its report. Around half of the children with brain infections experienced headaches, headaches with fever and head injuries with the risk of concussion.
The timing has led some to suggest that the spike is caused by"immunity debt," in which pandemic restrictions such as masking and lockdowns could have led to weakened immune systems. Dr. Déry said he believes in the concept of immunity debt, but doubts that it’s a factor in the brain infections spike., like RSV and influenza," he told Fox News Digital."With a brain abscess, it’s caused by bacteria or parasites, often in cases where people have had dental work or an ENT procedure."Other physicians are also uncertain about whether there’s a link to the pandemic.
About a third of the children’s parents said they had stopped masking prior to the onset of the infection, Dr. Bragg told Fox News Digital. "We don't know yet if this is just a cluster of cases or a national trend, so we can't say whether a pause in the immune system response due to COVID lockdowns or closures is playing a role, where the response to basic bugs like strep, which our kids hadn't seen in a while, is delayed," Dr.
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