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

Table 1

Prevalence of anti-HHEV among the general population of Europe.

Country	Number of samples	Anti-HHEV rate (%)			Reference
		Children	Adults	Overall
United Kingdom	710	—	3.9	—	[41]
	1591	2.0-3.0	5–27	13	[9]
Italy	1889	—	2.6	—	[64]
	3511	—	2.9	—	[65]
San Marino	2233	—	1.5	—	[66]
Spain	2529	4.6	7.3	6.0	[67, 68]
	2305^a	0.5	2.1	1.1	[37]
Germany	4422^a	—	17	—	[69]
The Netherlands	7072^a	0–0.3	1.4–6.4	1.9	[8]

aAnti-HHEV screened or confirmed by RIBT.