%0 Journal Article %T Hepatitis E virus and blood products %A Dalton, Harry R. %J Annals of Blood %D 2019 %B 2019 %9 %! Hepatitis E virus and blood products %K %X Hepatitis E virus (HEV) is currently a ‘hot topic’ in the blood transfusion community. Recently, the European Association for the Study of the Liver recommended that blood donors should be considered for screening for HEV. Several high-income countries have introduced, or are considering, screening of donors for HEV, following the recognition of the high frequency of documented viraemic donors, together with adverse outcomes in some recipients. A recently published study showed that 1:808 blood donations in Shanghai contained HEV RNA. This raises the issue of whether screening of blood donors for HEV should also be considered in China. %U https://aob.amegroups.org/article/view/5021 %V 4 %P %@ 2521-361X