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Mr. Gareth Wardell
To ask the Secretary of State for Health whether there have been any cases in England whereby hepatitis E has been contracted from faecally infected drinking water.
Mr. Freeman
The information requested is not available because there is, as yet, no diagnostic test for hepatitis E virus, though one is under development in the United States of America.