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Options for national testing and surveillance for hepatitis E virus

Hepatitis E virus is one of the leading causes of acute viral hepatitis worldwide. Read how national authorities in the EU/EEA can adjust HEV surveillance at a national level.

Read the operational guidance

Factsheet

Hepatitis E is an acute or chronic infection with the hepatitis E virus (HEV). In Europe, most of the infections are locally-acquired and asymptomatic.

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World Hepatitis Day

World Hepatitis Day is marked on 28 July each year to increase the awareness and understanding of viral hepatitis.

Previous World Hepatitis Days campaigns

Event

World Hepatitis Day 2020

28 Jul 2020

Peer-Reviewed Publication

Standardising surveillance of hepatitis E virus infection in the EU/EEA: A review of national practices and suggestions for the way forward

Nov 2019

Publication

Options for national testing and surveillance for hepatitis E virus in the EU/EEA - Operational guidance

Technical guidance -

Data

Presentation: Situation overview on hepatitis E in the EU/EEA Member States

Presentation -

Peer-Reviewed Publication

Standardising surveillance of hepatitis E virus infection in the EU/EEA: A review of national practices and suggestions for the way forward

Nov 2019

Publication

Options for national testing and surveillance for hepatitis E virus in the EU/EEA - Operational guidance

Technical guidance -

Data

Presentation: Situation overview on hepatitis E in the EU/EEA Member States

Presentation -

Publication

Hepatitis E in the EU/EEA, 2005-2015

Surveillance report -

Event

World Hepatitis Day 2020

28 Jul 2020

Event

World Hepatitis Day 2019

28 Jul 2019

Event

World Hepatitis Day 2018

28 Jul 2018

Event

World Hepatitis Day 2017

28 Jul 2017

Event

1st Hepatitis E virus network (HEVnet) meeting

26 Oct 2017 - 27 Oct 2017
RIVM, Bilthoven
Oct 2015

Event

7th Food- and Waterborne Diseases and Zoonoses Network (FWD-Net) meeting

15 Oct 2015 - 16 Oct 2015
Stockholm, Sweden

Data

World Hepatitis Day infograph

Infographic -

Data

Video: World Hepatitis Day

Video -

Data

Slogans

Infographic -

Data

​Key messages (for various audiences and for children)

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Surveillance and disease data

ECDC has identified a need to explore and assess closer the emerging threat of HEV to humans in EU/EEA.

Facts

Hepatitis E is an acute or chronic infection with the hepatitis E virus (HEV). In Europe, most of the infections are locally-acquired and asymptomatic.

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Campylobacteriosis

Disease networks

European Food- and Waterborne Diseases and Zoonoses Network (FWD-Net)

Peer-reviewed publications

Peer-Reviewed Publication

Standardising surveillance of hepatitis E virus infection in the EU/EEA: A review of national practices and suggestions for the way forward

Nov 2019

Peer-Reviewed Publication

Hepatitis E and blood donation safety in selected European countries: A shift to screening?

Apr 2017