Hong Kong was the first case of transmission of hepatitis E virus from rats to man, reports the South China Morning Post. Studies have shown that the type of virus, motoryacht Hong Kong University found 56-year-old man, was previously unique to rats, according to their formula rat hepatitis is significantly different from the strain found in humans.
Hepatitis E is a viral liver disease with fecal-oral mechanism of infection, and most often it is fixed in the regions with hot climate and poor sanitary conditions. Presumably the man in Hong Kong could be infected via food, contaminated with faeces of rats.
Physicians reported that the district of residence of the patient is considered infected rodents. In 2012, assembled in the area of biological material of rats was detected hepatitis E this type. In the patient’s home were also found traces of rat droppings, apparently entered from the street.
“This is the first study proves that the rat form of the hepatitis E virus can be transmitted to humans and cause the clinical symptoms of the infection,” stated the scientists of Hong Kong University.
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