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May 5, 2022

Health researchers in Minnesota are among those trying to determine what's behind a fairly sudden increase in children with severe cases of hepatitis. 

Mayo Clinic pediatric infectious disease specialist Dr. Nipunie Rajapakse says worldwide there have been clusters of nearly 300 cases, mostly in the United Kingdom.  

"This has kind of caught a lot of interest," Rajapakse said. "And so people are in the process of trying to first identify cases, especially even going back over the last few months so that we can use the information about these patients to try and understand what is going on."

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Next battle over access to abortion will focus on pills
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77 years after his death in WWII, a Minn. soldier to be buried in Washington
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Weekend weather: Springy; shower chance on Sunday
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