A 56-year-old man was diagnosed with hepatitis E, which normally affects only mice. It is the first case of its kind in the world, doctors say.
Certainly there have been such situations before, but, most likely, they went undiagnosed, it shows LiveScience.
Important in this case is the fact that the man from Hong Kong received a liver transplant in May 2017. Patients of this type receive drugs that act directly on the immune system, so as not to reject the organ from a donor. As a result, their immune systems are weakened and they are more susceptible to disease.
Regarding the source of the infection, doctors explain that the virus does not come from the liver donor or from those who donated blood – all being tested for this virus.
It is not known how he became infected. One hypothesis is that he ate contaminated food, but it cannot be ruled out that he lives near a landfill, where conditions are far from hygienic.
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