Hepatitis E — United Kingdom
Foreign sausage meat, much of it from France and Germany, is the likely source of an epidemic of hepatitis E liver disease, say British government scientists. The viral disease made 869 Britons seriously ill in 2014. Of those, 721 acquired the infection from food eaten in the UK. The figure compares with 274 in 2010, according to Public Health England (PHE), whose researchers realised pig meat was involved after surveys showed that up to 10 percent of sausages carried the virus.
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