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https://scmp.com/news/hong-kong/health-environment/article/2173951/second-hong-kong-resident-infected-hepatitis-virusHealth & Environment
World’s second case of rat hepatitis E in humans reported in Hong Kong, two months after local resident revealed as first patient
- Patient, 70, is a retiree who lived in the Wong Tai Sin district, the same area as man in previous case
- Expert says both infections are not linked despite two locations being only 3km apart
Discarded food waste creates a rats’ paradise in an alley of a market in the same district where a second Hong Kong resident was infected with the hepatitis E virus. Photo: David Wong
A 70-year-old Hong Kong woman was revealed on Monday to be the world’s second case of rat hepatitis E infection in humans, two months after another local resident living 3km (1.9 miles) away was reported as the first patient.
Secretary for Food and Health Sophia Chan Siu-chee said hours after the news broke that she was very concerned about the emergence of the second case. A local expert involved in the investigation said it was not linked to the first infection despite both patients living in the same district.