A 2-year-old girl who suffered from acute hepatitis and was waiting for a second liver transplant died this Sunday in Puerto Rico, her family told Noticias Telemundo.
The case of Amahia Márquez Sánchez was under surveillance by the health authorities within the outbreak of serious liver disease detected in children in twenty countries, and which had already caused at least one other death in the United States and more than a hundred cases distributed across half the country.
Amahia Márquez Sánchez. Telemundo 40 / Telemundo 40
The deceased girl in Puerto Rico began to suffer symptoms of conjunctivitis on April 21 that worsened with an allergy throughout her body and adding other signs of illness without the doctors being able to explain the reasons, according to Telemundo 40.
On May 4, he received a liver transplant but his body rejected it;
At the time of his death, he was waiting in critical condition for another organ at the Auxilio Mutuo Hospital in San Juan.
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The state Department of Health notified his case earlier this month to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) "for meeting the definition of a person under investigation" within the childhood hepatitis outbreak "with an unknown cause."
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I had no strength, I saw her yellow and I didn't want to eat
, when she has a good eating pattern," her aunt, Neida Roldán, explained days ago to the Metro newspaper, adding: "The doctor told me that the little house was a little ugly because his bilirubin was very high… and he told me 'he has hepatitis', but from where?