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Woman dies after hepatitis E virus infection from blood transfusion
Today 05:52 am JST
TOKYO
A woman in her 80s died in November after being infected with the hepatitis E virus through a blood transfusion, in what is believed to be the world's first case of death resulting from the virus infection through transfusion, according to a report by the Japanese Red Cross Society.
The organization reported to a government panel that the person who donated the blood may have been infected with the virus after eating raw deer meat. The same type of virus was detected from the donor's blood as the one found from the woman who died. Aside from the woman, no one received the infected blood.
The hepatitis E virus can be found in deer and wild boar meat. Pregnant women and elderly people could suffer severe symptoms from the virus...
Woman dies after hepatitis E virus infection from blood transfusion
Today 05:52 am JST
TOKYO
A woman in her 80s died in November after being infected with the hepatitis E virus through a blood transfusion, in what is believed to be the world's first case of death resulting from the virus infection through transfusion, according to a report by the Japanese Red Cross Society.
The organization reported to a government panel that the person who donated the blood may have been infected with the virus after eating raw deer meat. The same type of virus was detected from the donor's blood as the one found from the woman who died. Aside from the woman, no one received the infected blood.
The hepatitis E virus can be found in deer and wild boar meat. Pregnant women and elderly people could suffer severe symptoms from the virus...