A case of the mysterious acute variant of hepatitis in children has been detected in Burgas, after testing of the samples taken from a 5-year-old child who was treated for acute hepatitis in the Burgas hospital.
This was announced by the Bulgarian National Centre for Infectious and Parasitic Diseases.
Additional tests are currently undergoing, said assoc. prof. Lubomira Nikolaeva-Glomb, who heads the Centre's Virology Department.
She explained that there are currently 228 known cases of children being infected with this type of the virus worldwide. Most cases of hepatitis are mild, but in 10% the disease is severe and some require liver transplants.
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