While reading the news this morning, I noticed a puzzling item. Reuters was claiming there was no link between the COVID vaccine and an outbreak of liver disease in children. It seemed strange to me because I had never heard of any COVID vaccine causing liver disease, and I wondered why there was a sudden announcement that the vaccine was not causing liver disease.
I did see an article that the World Health Organization (WHO) was investigating 169 cases of liver disease in children in several countries. One child has died and seventeen have required liver transplants. So far, the only thing the WHO is sure of is that the usual viruses that cause acute hepatitis have not been detected.
I immediately wondered if the mass COVID vaccination could be causing this. So many people rolled up their sleeves, and their children’s sleeves, for mRNA vaccines, and mRNA vaccination is an experimental technology with unknown long-term effects. Looking into the matter, I found a case of autoimmune hepatitis (AIH) in a 65-year-old woman who developed the disease two weeks after she got her first shot of the Moderna vaccine.
Looking further, I found an article in the American Journal of Gastroenterology relating the case of a 38-year-old woman who developed AIH after her second dose of the Pfizer vaccine. The Journal concluded, “This case serves to report a potential association and not necessarily causation between the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccination and AIH.”