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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

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 -

Data

World Hepatitis Day infograph

Infographic -

Data

Video: World Hepatitis Day

Video -

Publication

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

Technical guidance -

Publication

Hepatitis E in the EU/EEA, 2005-2015

Surveillance report -

Peer-Reviewed Publication

Hepatitis E virus infection in Europe: Surveillance and descriptive epidemiology of confirmed cases, 2005 to 2015

Jan 2017

Peer-Reviewed Publication

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

Jan 2017

News

ECDC: around 9 million Europeans are affected by chronic hepatitis B or C

Press release -

News

ECDC report: 10-fold increase of hepatitis E cases in the EU/EEA between 2005 and 2015

News -

Event

World Hepatitis Day 2019

28 Jul 2019

Event

World Hepatitis Day 2018

28 Jul 2018

Event

1st Hepatitis E virus network (HEVnet) meeting

26 Oct 2017 - 27 Oct 2017
RIVM, Bilthoven

Event

World Hepatitis Day 2017

28 Jul 2017

Data

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

Presentation -

Data

World Hepatitis Day infograph

Infographic -

Data

Video: World Hepatitis Day

Video -

Data

Slogans

Key messages, Toolkit material -

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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Disease programmes and networks

Food- and waterborne diseases and zoonoses Programme

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

FWD Expert Exchange Programme

Peer-reviewed publications

Peer-Reviewed Publication

Hepatitis E virus infection in Europe: Surveillance and descriptive epidemiology of confirmed cases, 2005 to 2015

Jan 2017

Peer-Reviewed Publication

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

Jan 2017

Peer-Reviewed Publication

Hepatitis E virus: Assessment of the epidemiological situation in humans in Europe, 2014/15

Jan 2016