Study of Animal Mixing and the Dynamics of Hepatitis E Virus Infection on a Farrow-to-Finish Pig Farm
In Europe, 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 infection dynamics fine mic