After seeing an unusually high number of children with life-threatening brain infections last year, doctors are calling attention to the puzzling trend. Shaun Rodgers, a pediatric neurosurgeon at Cohen Children’s Medical Center — part of Northwell Health in New York — said his hospital is still seeing an above-average number of brain abscesses, a trend that started around the end of 2022. Shah said Cincinnati Children’s has only seen a couple cases of brain abscesses this year