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Hepatitis E virus transmission from wild boar meat

Emerging Infectious Diseases (2005) 11(12) 1958-1960
DOI: 10.3201/eid1112.051041
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Abstract

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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Li, T. C., Chijiwa, K., Sera, N., Ishibashi, T., Etoh, Y., Shinohara, Y., … Miyamura, T. (2005). Hepatitis E virus transmission from wild boar meat. Emerging Infectious Diseases, 11(12), 1958–1960. https://doi.org/10.3201/eid1112.051041

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