Hepatitis E, the neglected one

Hepatitis E - a neglected disease in Norway.

The existence of a new virus with many of the epidemiological and clinical characteristics of the hepatitis A virus was first suggested following a waterborne outbreak in the Kashmir valley in India in 1978 (3). A few years later, the Soviet doctor Mikhail S. Balayan demonstrated a faecal-oral infection route by drinking a faecal extract from infected soldiers in a military camp in Afghanistan....

Is Melioidosis a One Health-Neglected Disease in Iran?

According to the several scientific resources, Iran is considered to be among the melioidosis-endemic regions of the world; this is in stark contrast to the domestic stance in Iran, where the risk of melioidosis is speculated only as an emerging infectious disease in a non-endemic area. Recently, we have had devastating flash floods in the most provinces of Iran; the changing of soil structure ...

Hepatitis E immunosuppressed patients and assisted pregnancy: Is it time to discuss neglected issues?

Hepatitis E

Hepatitis E virus (HEV) was discovered during the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan in the 1980s, after an outbreak of unexplained hepatitis at a military camp. A pooled faecal extract from affected soldiers was ingested by a member of the research team. He became sick, and the new virus (named HEV), was detected in his stool by electron microscopy. Subsequently, endemic HEV has been identified ...

Hepatitis E.

From the Liver Disease Research Branch, Division of Digestive Diseases and Nutrition, National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (J.H.H.), and the Laboratory of Infectious Diseases, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (R.H.P.), National Institutes of Health, Bethesda; and the Department of Epidemiology, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Bal...