Wild boars are reservoir of HEV: High prevalence among forestry workers in eastern France
Thursday, September 20, 2012 - 08:05
in Health & Medicine
Nearly one third of forestry workers in parts of eastern France are infected with Hepatitis E virus (HEV), according to a paper in the September Journal of Clinical Microbiology. Wild boars in the same region are also heavily infected. HEV is endemic in developing nations, but heretofore, HEV infection in industrialized nations has been most closely correlated with travel to developing nations.