Hepatitis E — Worldwide/Unknown
As many as one in 10 sausages is infected with a potentially deadly virus that causes liver damage, scientists warn. They are concerned that rising numbers of Britons are being struck down with hepatitis E after eating contaminated pork. The infection was once considered very rare, but cases have risen by nearly 40 per cent in a year, and there were 657 in 2012.
The virus usually causes only relatively mild symptoms such as sickness, a temperature and muscle pain, which clear up by
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