By Landon Gray
The CDC issued a Health Alert Network health advisory to clinicians and public health providers informing them of the circulation of parechovirus (PeV) in the United States.
Beginning in May 2022, reports from multiple states of PeV infections in newborn babies and young infants have been received by the CDC. All positive specimens documented by the CDC were PeV-A3.
Of the four species of PeV, PeV-A3 is the one most frequently associated with severe disease.
Parechoviruses are known