Light and Darkness: Prevalence of Hepatitis E Virus Infection among the General Population

Table 7

Studies reporting anti-HHEV prevalence higher than 50% among specific population groups.

Region	Population group	Anti-HHEV rate (%)	Reference
South Asia and the Far East	Orang Asli population older than 11 years (central Malaysia)	50–67	[75]
	Tribes from Andaman Islands (India)	50–100	[57]
	Guangxi rural population older than 60 years (China)	70–80	[77]
	Bangladeshi rural population older than 80 years	67	[5]
	Chinese Han older than 60 years	57	[59]
	Hong Kong population older than 80 years	52–60	[80]
Middle East	Pregnant women from the Nile Delta	84	[7]
	Lower and Upper Egyptian rural population older than four years	51–78	[101]
South America	Cochabamba city homeless children (Bolivia)	66	[49]
Western Europe	Blood donors older than 58 years from Toulouse, France	70	[39]