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World’s First Human Case of Rat Hepatitis E
October 10 , 2018
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- World’s first ever human case of the rat version of the hepatitis E virus (HEV) has been detected in a 56-year-old Hong Kong man.
- This is the first study in the world that proves that, rat HEV can infect human beings and cause clinical infection.
- Rat hepatitis E virus is very different from human hepatitis E virus variants.
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