Hepatitis E -- Chad
From 1 Sep 2016 until 13 Jan 2017, a total of 693 cases including 11 deaths of acute jaundice syndrome (AJS) have been reported from Am Timan, Chad.
Of the 50 patients with AJS who were hospitalized, 48 were tested for hepatitis E using the Hepatitis E virus rapid diagnostic test (HEV RDT) and 27 (56.3 per cent ) tested positive. In total, at the end of epidemiological week 2 [9 to 15 Jan 2017], a total of 126 HEV RDT have been performed, of them 57 (45.2 per cent ) were positive, while 69
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