The WHO manages at least the existence of some 228 cases of acute childhood hepatitis in 20 countries, with the United Kingdom being the one with the most patients with this disease
The regional director of Emergencies of the World Health Organization (WHO), Gerald Rockenschaub, warned this Tuesday, May 3, that the situation registered with acute childhood hepatitis in at least 20 countries is alarming and stressed that it is being given absolute priority. to this situation.
Rockenschaub warned that the WHO must address these cases urgently and work closely with the European Center for Disease Prevention and Control to manage and coordinate the actions taken in this case.
He stated that several countries have been alerted to be aware of what is happening with this acute childhood hepatitis, while stressing that they are working as quickly as possible to identify the causes of this new variant and take the appropriate measures both in each one of the nations with cases like in the rest of the world.
For his part, the WHO spokesman, Tarik Jasarevic, indicated that the world body has been notified of at least 228 cases of acute childhood hepatitis and said that the number of countries where this disease was found in patients doubled in 10 days. .
Jasarevic declared that another 50 cases of this disease are being investigated and pointed out that at least four regions of the world have already reported cases: Europe -with the majority-, America, Asia-Pacific and South Asia.
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The first ten cases of this acute hepatitis were reported by the United Kingdom to the WHO on April 5, in children under 10 years of age with no previous ailments, and since then infections have also been detected in Spain, Israel, Denmark, Italy, the United States United States and Belgium, among others.
They report that the age of the affected minors ranges between one month of birth and 16 years. In addition, they say that in most cases there is no fever and that the viruses usually associated with these ailments (hepatitis A, B, C, D and E) have not been detected in any of them.
Currently it is the United Kingdom that has the most cases with 111. It is followed by the United States with 55, Israel (12), Japan (1), and other European nations with less than 10 cases.
With information from Radio Union / D.W.
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