Emerging Infectious Diseases (Dec 2005)

Hepatitis E Virus Transmission from Wild Boar Meat

  • Tian-Cheng Li,
  • Katsumi Chijiwa,
  • Nobuyuki Sera,
  • Tetsuya Ishibashi,
  • Yoshiki Etoh,
  • Yuji Shinohara,
  • Yasuo Kurata,
  • Miki Ishida,
  • Shigeru Sakamoto,
  • Naokazu Takeda,
  • Tatsuo Miyamura

DOI
https://doi.org/10.3201/eid1112.051041
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 11, no. 12
pp. 1958 – 1960

Abstract

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We investigated a case of hepatitis E acquired after persons ate wild boar meat. Genotype 3 hepatitis E virus (HEV) RNA was detected in both patient serum and wild boar meat. These findings provided direct evidence of zoonotic foodborne transmission of HEV from a wild boar to a human.

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