Rat Hepatitis E Virus: An Emerging Challenge in Human Hepatitis

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Conclusion

rHEV is an emerging zoonotic pathogen with many critical questions still unanswered. In this issue, Lo et al. provide important new insights into its zoonotic risk (Box 1). Integration of rHEV testing in Hong Kong identified 22 human infections, while nearly doubling the number of complete human-derived rHEV genomes and enabling an open-access classification system for novel strains. Their findings indicate both adaptation to the human host and genotype-wide zoonotic potential, and the

Authors’ contributions

K.D., S.L., and A.G.: Writing – original draft and Writing – review & editing.

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