The Ministry of Health of the Government of the Canary Islands notifies this Thursday, May 26, a case under investigation on suspicion of acute childhood hepatitis of unknown origin that is being studied in the University Hospital Our Lady of Candelaria, in Tenerife. This is a 16-year-old patient, who is undergoing complementary diagnostic tests to verify whether or not her pathology corresponds to this variant of hepatitis, while she remains admitted to the ward at La Candelaria Hospital with a favorable evolution.
The case under investigation will be notified this Thursday to Ministry of Health and the European Center for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC)as indicated by the protocols.
The cause of the appearance of this variant of hepatitis is still unknown to the scientific community, although all the hospitals of the Canary Islands Health Service are alert to the possible appearance of a patient with symptoms compatible with this disease.
