Hepatitis E -- Bangladesh
[HEV is hepatitis E virus, which causes one of the 5 known viral hepatitis]. HEV spreads usually through fecal contamination of drinking water.
At least 4 people lost their lives due to HEV infection in the last few months and thousands have been infected by HEV in a large part of Chittagong city. This water-borne epidemic has challenged the capacity of supplying safe drinking water and maintaining sewerage system there, which is the second most important metropolis of Bangladesh with a
Read more about it at HealthMap Global Disease Alerts via http://healthmap.org/ln.php?6154576&promed&0
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