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Article: Uncooked deer meat consumption presents a risk for hepatitis E virus infection.
- Article from:
- Biotech Week
- Article date:
- October 6, 2004
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2004 OCT 6 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Uncooked deer meat consumption presents a risk for hepatitis E virus infection.
"It was reported previously food-borne transmission of hepatitis E virus (HEV) to humans from deer meat. The present study attempted to clarify whether eating uncooked deer meat is a major epidemiological risk factor for HEV infection in Kasai, a city in western Japan. In total, 45 volunteer subjects with experience of eating raw deer meat were enrolled," scientists in Japan report.
"An equivalent number of people from the same area who had never eaten raw deer meat served as controls. The subjects and controls had comparable age and ...