The Secretary of Health of Tamaulipas reported this Friday that the case of a 14-year-old adolescent, suspected of being infected with acute childhood hepatitis.
The head of the agency, Gloria Molina Gamboareported that the young man tested negative for hepatitis types A, B, C or D and that he presented symptoms of vomiting, diarrhea and general malaise.
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“The samples were sent by the State Laboratory of Public Health to the Institute of Epidemiological Diagnosis and Reference (INDRE) for its diagnosis, since there is no technical capacity to determine the disease, that until now the origin or cause is unknown,” reported the State Health Secretariat.
Ayer, New Lion reported that it has a record of four patients infected with hepatitis aguda and that, so far, all are reported stable. The cases were identified in public and private institutions.
Alma Rosa Marroquin, secretary of Health of the state, reported that these are children of different ages who are already being monitored.
The head of the unit reported that, worldwide, cases of acute hepatitis have increased, mainly in the United Kingdom. The total number of registered cases, so far, add up to 300.
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The United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDCin English) reported until May 6 that 109 cases and five deaths were already being investigated by severe infantil hepatitis in the country, especially to determine if the main cause could be a infection for adenovirus.
The World Health Organization (OMS) has stated that he has found no relationship between the cases of what appears to be a new type of acute childhood hepatitis and the consumption of some type of foodsmedicines or the Covid-19 vaccine.
“The causes are still under deep investigation. We are looking at a number of underlying factors, infectious and non-infectious, that could be causing the cases,” he said at a news conference in Ginebra the specialist of the OMSPhilippa Easterbrook.