UK supermarket may have infected thousands with Hepatitis E virus from sausages and pork of EU pigs, researchers warn
A UK supermarket may have unintentionally infected thousands of people with the Hepatitis E virus transmitted through sausages and pork products from Europe, Public Health England have warned. Imported pork infects between 150,000 and 200,000 British people a year with the virus, the new research claims, and the products mainly come from Holland and Germany.
Hepatitis E, which is officially called HEV G3-2, can cause liver cirrhosis (scarring of the liver which prevents it working properly) and neurological damage.
UK pigs do not have this particular virus strain.
The supermarket in question has not been named, and instead researchers are referring to it as Supermarket X.
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