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Hepatitis E Virus Epidemiology
New hepatitis E virus epidemiology findings from University of Cincinnati, Department of Internal Medicine published
October 14th, 2008
Investigators publish new data in the report 'Hepatitis E and pregnancy: understanding the pathogenesis.' "Hepatitis E virus (HEV) is a single-stranded RNA virus that causes large-scale epidemics of acute viral hepatitis, particularly in developing countries. In men and non-pregnant women, the disease is usually self-limited and has a case-fatality rate of less than <0.1%," investigators in the United States report. "However, in pregnant women, particularly from certain geographical areas in India, HEV infection is more severe, often leading to fulminant hepatic failure and death in a significant proportion of patients. In contrast, reports from Egypt, Europe and the...
Source: TB & Outbreaks Week (2008-10-14)
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