Centre for Health Protection (CHP)<\/a> said on Saturday that the case involved a 42-year-old man with chronic liver disease, whose blood sample tested positive for the virus on May 5.<\/p>\n\u201cBased on current epidemiological data, the CHP considered that the patient was more likely to have acquired the infection locally,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
The case marks the first instance of a human infected by rat hepatitis E this year.<\/p>\n
According to the CHP, the patient said he had not been in direct contact with rats, and had not seen any rodents at his home or workplace, both located in Hung Hom.<\/p>\n
The South China Morning Post learned that the man lived at Laguna Verde, a private housing estate, and worked at One Harbourfront.<\/p>\n
The spokesman added that the man had taken brief trips in April, but no rat hepatitis E virus cases had been reported so far in those destinations. The spokesman did not reveal where those locations were.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Health authorities are investigating a human case of rat hepatitis E \u2013 the first recorded in Hong Kong…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":444670,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[207999,24687,163,3448,208003,85,46,208002,208000,208001],"class_list":["post-444669","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-health","tag-accident-and-emergency-department","tag-centre-for-health-protection","tag-health","tag-hong-kong","tag-hung-hom","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-queen-mary-hospital","tag-rat-hepatitis-e","tag-rat-hepatitis-e-virus"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/444669","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=444669"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/444669\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/444670"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=444669"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=444669"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=444669"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}