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The W.H.O. says many hepatitis E cases have been reported in Central and Southeast Asia, North and West Africa and Mexico. No vaccines or medicines are effective against hepatitis E. Most people recover, usually in several weeks or months. But the disease can cause liver damage. And, in some cases, hepatitis E can be deadly.
The virus is especially dangerous to pregnant women. Twenty percent of such women living with hepatitis E die in the last three months of pregnancy.