Study of Animal Mixing and the Dynamics of Hepatitis E Virus Infection on a Farrow-to-Finish Pig Farm
In Europe, bath bomb gift set swine are a livestock reservoir for Hepatitis E virus genotype 3 (HEV-3).Consumption of food containing HEV-3 can cause zoonotic human infection, though risk is reduced by heat treatment.Implementing controls that limit infection in slaughter pigs may further reduce foodborne transmission risk but knowledge of infectio