Hepatitis HEV

Hepatitis E Recovered From Rats In Los Angeles

Published in TB and Outbreaks Week, December 4th, 2001

Researchers from the National Institutes of Health have recovered a virus similar to the hepatitis E virus (HEV) from rats in Los Angeles, California, a finding that may explain high levels of HEV exposure in inner-city residents without disease.

"There is a fair amount of antibodies to HEV in humans in the United States, suggesting exposure, but very little clinical manifestations of the disease," says Robert Purcell, co-chief of the Laboratory of Infectious Diseases and Head of the Hepatitis Viruses Section of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease and primary author of the study.

HEV infection is one of the most common causes of...

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