Cases of hepatitis A are on the rise in Catalonia, and last year diagnoses tripled, now reaching more than 100. In fact, between 2022 and 2024, 164 people have been identified with the disease, almost 60% of them in the last year. Public Health officials in Catalonia warn that this increase is rare and assure that they are trying to determine the mechanism driving the rise in infections.

This Thursday, the Spanish Ministry of Health has notified the first two deaths in Spain caused by an unexplained child hepatitis. Both are children who were unable to recover from the liver transplant they underwent. According to the Ministry's follow-up report on the disease, of the 46 cases detected in Spain, 3 have had to undergo surgery for a liver transplant: a three-year-old girl in Aragon (who is progressing favourably) and a 6-year-old boy in Murcia and a 15-month-old baby in Andalusia, who died 24 hours after their operation. In any case, the Ministry of Health assures that, up until now, the number of unexplained hepatitis cases in children and subsequent transplants "are within the range expected following estimates made with data from previous years".