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People In Hong Kong Are Becoming Ill With Rat Hepatitis For First Time Ever. No One Knows How It's Happening.
[Daily Wire] A new report this week outlined an increasing virus problem in Hong Kong, which is attached to mainland China, where rat hepatitis E is jumping from rats to humans for the first time in history, and no one seems to know how it’s happening.New animal based anomaly turns up where again? Hong Kong! Oh, I see. I see. The first case was reported in 2018 when infectious disease experts at the University of Hong Kong (HKU) examined a man who had just undergone a liver transplant and was having liver problems. "Tests found that his immune system was responding to hepatitis E — but they couldn’t actually find the human strain of the hepatitis E virus (HEV) in his blood," CNN reported. "With tests for that human strain of HEV negative, the researchers redesigned the diagnostic test, ran it again — and found, for the first time in history, rat hepatitis E in a human." Dr. Siddharth Sridhar, a microbiologist at HKU, told CNN that "suddenly, we have a virus that can jump from street rats to humans" but added that it was not clear if it was just a "one-off incident." Since the first discovery, ten more cases have been identified in Hong Kong with the most recently discovered case being identified a week ago in a man who had no recent travel history and had no signs of rats in his home. Posted by: Besoeker 2020-05-10 |
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