Hepatitis E — India
More than 20 medical employees of the civic-run Nair hospital near Mumbai Central station have contracted jaundice arising out of a hepatitis E [HEV] infection in the last month. A class IV employee succumbed to the infection in February 2016, but hospital officials said that he lived in Badlapur and may have contracted the virus there.
“Two resident doctors are admitted in the hospital at the moment, but they are stable,” said one of the student doctors. “The outbreak came to light when
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