High risk of HEV infection among seafood processing workers
The seroprevalence of hepatitis E virus (HEV) was found to be 22.20% among the seafood processing factories employees in Yantai city of Shandong Province, China, according to a research study conducted by the Yantai Center for Disease Control and Prevention and Shandong Center for Disease Control and Prevention.
The hepatitis E virus with strong heat stability is enriching in the digestive tissue of shellfish products and pollute the coastal waters. The virus is then transmitted to the coastal residents who eat the polluted and undercooked seafood. That’s why the coastal population are easier to be infected by HEV. Similar cases have been found in Japan and Thailand of bivalve mollusks with HEV. Directors of Yantai CDC and Shandong CDC suggested that the seamen exposed to polluted waters and seafood processing workers had better take protective measures or get vaccinated with hepatitis E vaccine in order to avoid being infected.
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/doi:10.1016/j.ijid.2016.05.028
Reference: IJID 2633
The hepatitis E virus with strong heat stability is enriching in the digestive tissue of shellfish products and pollute the coastal waters. The virus is then transmitted to the coastal residents who eat the polluted and undercooked seafood. That’s why the coastal population are easier to be infected by HEV. Similar cases have been found in Japan and Thailand of bivalve mollusks with HEV. Directors of Yantai CDC and Shandong CDC suggested that the seamen exposed to polluted waters and seafood processing workers had better take protective measures or get vaccinated with hepatitis E vaccine in order to avoid being infected.
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/doi:10.1016/j.ijid.2016.05.028
Reference: IJID 2633
