liver and gallbladder disorders
Hepatitis E
Transmission of hepatitis E
Hepatitis E is spread primarily when something contaminated with the stool of an infected person is ingested by another person (called the Fecal-oral transmission of parasites ). Hepatitis E occasionally causes epidemics, which are often linked to water contaminated by stool. Epidemics have occurred only in China, India, Mexico, Peru, Russia, Pakistan, and central and northern Africa, not in the United States or Western Europe. In countries with effective, routine sanitation methods, most cases occur in travelers returning home from a country where sanitation is poor and access to safe water is limited. 