Red Book 28e

Hepatitis E

Clinical Manifestations

Hepatitis E virus (HEV) infection is an acute illness with symptoms including jaundice, malaise, anorexia, fever, abdominal pain, and arthralgia. Subclinical infection also occurs. Disease is more common among adults than among children and is more severe in pregnant women, in whom mortality rates can approach 10%. Chronic HEV infection has not been reported.

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