||HEV (Hepatitis E Virus)
||Virus: hepatitis E
||Hepatitis E is transmitted through eating or drinking contaminated food or water supplies, poor personal hygiene, and person to person (uncommon).
||Fifteen to sixty days
||May have no symptoms (especially young children). Some persons have mild flu-like symptoms, dark urine, light stools, jaundice, fatigue, and fever.
||There is currently no treatment for hepatitis E.
||To prevent transmission of the hepatitis E virus avoid consuming potentially contaminated water or food.
||Mortality (death rate) of those infected with hepatitis E is 1-2% although in pregnant women it approches 20%.
||Occurrence of hepatitis E in the U.S. is very rare and is mostly associated with U.S. residents who travel to developing countries.
DSHS Electronic Publication Number E13-11896