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Cristina Calvo Rey

Head of Section of the Hospital Paediatrics, Infectious and Tropical Diseases Department of the Hospital Universitario Infantil La Paz (Madrid)

In Spain we don't have this feeling. Neither I personally, nor the National Centre of Microbiology apparently either. 
At La Paz Hospital, in all of 2022 there were five neonates with enterovirus infection, three of whom had myocarditis. In 2023, we have had none.   
To know whether the UK cases are many or few, we will have to know how many cases there are in other years, which is not mentioned in the published note.
I think that for the moment we cannot create unnecessary alarms. As they [the WHO statement] say, myocarditis is relatively common in neonatal enterovirus infections. Enterovirus is very common, especially in spring or summer epidemics, and there is a case every year. So far, we have not detected any unusual increase in cases of enterovirus infection.

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