{"id":8,"date":"2022-05-27T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-05-27T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cota1.wpengine.com\/cotaforkaidensjourney\/2022\/05\/27\/unanswered-questions\/"},"modified":"2022-05-27T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2022-05-27T00:00:00","slug":"unanswered-questions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cota.org\/cotaforkaidensjourney\/2022\/05\/27\/unanswered-questions\/","title":{"rendered":"Unanswered Questions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We still dont know what caused Kaiden&#8217;s acute liver failure, but we know now we&#8217;re not the only ones looking for answers.<u><\/u><u><\/u><\/p>\n<p>As of&nbsp;21 April 2022, at least 169 cases of acute hepatitis of unknown origin have been identified in 12 reporting countries to the WHO.&nbsp;Cases are aged 1 month to 16 years old. Seventeen children (approximately 10%) have required liver transplantation; at least one death has been reported.<u><\/u><u><\/u><\/p>\n<p>In the US, the CDC&nbsp;are investigating 216 cases of children with acute hepatitis from an unknown origin from 38 states and territories.&nbsp;<u><\/u><u><\/u><\/p>\n<p>For children facing this disease, a liver transplant may be necessary to save their life.&nbsp;The cost of organ transplants varies greatly, but a typical liver transplant can cost approximately $300,000, not including pre-transplant or follow-up treatments.&nbsp;100% of proceeds raised will go to COTA to assist with transplant-related expenses.&nbsp;<u><\/u><u><\/u><\/p>\n<p>We&nbsp;hope you will&nbsp;consider donating to COTA in honor of Kaidens&nbsp;Journey&nbsp;to help give hope.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.who.int\/emergencies\/disease-outbreak-news\/item\/2022-DON376\">WHO: Multi-Country &ndash; Acute, severe hepatitis of unknown origin in children<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/ncird\/investigation\/hepatitis-unknown-cause\/updates.html\">CDC Tracking: Children with Acute Hepatitis of Unknown Etiology<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcdfw.com\/news\/local\/tarrant-county-reports-first-case-of-pediatric-hepatitis-of-unknown-origin\/2979243\/\">NBC: Tarrant County Reports First Case of Pediatric Hepatitis of Unknown Origin<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We still dont know what caused Kaiden&#8217;s acute liver failure, but we know now we&#8217;re not the only ones looking for answers. As of&nbsp;21 April 2022, at least 169 cases of acute hepatitis of unknown origin have been identified in 12 reporting countries to the WHO.&nbsp;Cases are aged 1 month to 16 years old. Seventeen [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-8","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cota.org\/cotaforkaidensjourney\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cota.org\/cotaforkaidensjourney\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cota.org\/cotaforkaidensjourney\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cota.org\/cotaforkaidensjourney\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cota.org\/cotaforkaidensjourney\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cota.org\/cotaforkaidensjourney\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}