Minsal rules out cases of childhood hepatitis of unknown origin after cases detected in Europe and the United States

The head of Epidemiology of the Ministry of Health, Christian García, ruled out that Chile registers cases of childhood hepatitis of unknown origin. This follows the warning of the World Health Organization (WHO) on April 5, to be notified regarding the first cases of severe acute hepatitis of unknown origin in children under 10 years in the United Kingdom.
As the days progressed, dozens of cases were detected in more countries in Europe and even in the United States.
As a result of this, García said that “we want to report on the measures that have been adopted in Chile before the communication of the World Health Organization (WHO) on the appearance of cases of hepatitis in children under 10 years of age in some countries of Europe.”
“In Chile there are no cases of hepatitis associated with this alert. Our country has a robust surveillance system that has been activated for the monitoring of these cases throughout our healthcare network,” he added.
In that line, Christian García added that “if any case is detected, the population will be communicated in a timely manner.”
“Our call is to go to official sources of information and to maintain the protection and prevention measures of the viruses that circulate in our country with hand washing, use of masks and ventilation of closed places,” he said.

Original source in Spanish