Langstaff who chaired the Infected Blood Scandal inquiry. He spoke for the last a0 minutes, it was a moving and rousing address where he went through some of the findings that his inquiry published in its final report today. Lets go through some of the main conclusions he made. He concluded that the Treatment Disaster could and should have been largely avoided. The five year investigation accuses doctors, the government and the nhs of trying to cover up what happened. They found patients were knowingly exposed to what he described as unacceptable risks and he found a catalogue of failures with catastrophic consequences. The Prime Minister, rishi sunak, is expected to issue an apology later on today. I am joined now by my colleague ali price who was also listening to what we heard from sir Brian Langstaff. 0ne was also listening to what we heard from sir Brian Langstaff. One of the overwhelming conclusions having listened to that and to so many other and Family Members is that feeling o
well so this is sort of an unusual phenomena that we are seeing. reporter: the typical causes have been ruled out, including the hepatitis b virus which is what most children are vaccinated against stephanie is among those who want answers after her otherwis healthy 3-year-old rapidly went into liver failure last summer one possible theory for the global spread is adanovirus. something all nine of alabama s hepatitis patients tested positive for it was really unusual. it was kind of scary, too. reporter: the cdc detailing the alabama infections in a report today. all were age 6 and under. three patients developed acute liver failure. vomiting, diarrhea and fever were among the most common initial symptoms how should parents know the difference between a bug and potentially hepatitis? specific signs for liver injury really is things like jaundice. things like severe abdominal pain. things like changes of the urine and of the stool. reporter: while health officials don t believ
on what we know. reporter: a mysterious hepatitis outbreak is sending kids to the hospital killing at least one child according to health officials the majority of infections popping up in the uk, while here in the states two have been recorded in north carolina and another nine in alabama. the main reason the concern is high is because, one, it s children, and two, the source is unknown. reporter: hepatitis refers to inflammation of the liver and can cause vomiting, abdominal pain, and a key indicator, jaundice so far the world health organization has tallied 169 cases among mostly healthy kids 10% needing liver transplants. experts say the overall number of hepatitis cases is relatively small, but the circumstances are unusual. nearly half of the hepatitis patients tested positive for adenovirus, which is commonly linked with colds. dr. gutierrez was one of the first people to notice the concerning trend in alabama. when the first case came up showing that