Table. Rattus spp. rats tested for hepatitis E virus RNA*.
| Location | Species and sample size |
||
|---|---|---|---|
| R. norvegicus | R. rattus | No. positive | |
| United States | |||
| Aleutian Islands, Alaska | 18 | 7 | 6 |
| San Francisco Bay Area, California | 19 | 112 | 12 |
| Gainesville, Florida | NA | 21 | 4 |
| Oklahoma City, Oklahoma | 1 | NA | 1 |
| Memphis, Tennessee | 16 | NA | 6 |
| San Angelo, Texas | 2 | 11 | 2 |
| Little Rock, Arkansas | 2 | 6 | 0 |
| San Diego, California | 8 | 5 | 3 |
| Panama City, Florida | NA | 24 | 0 |
| Key Largo, Florida | NA | 5 | 0 |
| Spencer, Indiana | NA | 10 | 0 |
| Baton Rouge, Louisiana | NA | 12 | 0 |
| Prentiss, Mississippi | NA | 1 | 0 |
| Bernalillo, New Mexico | 2 | NA | 0 |
| Union County, Pennsylvania | 40 | NA | 1 |
| Corvallis, Oregon | 4 | NA | 0 |
| Houston, Texas | NA | 8 | 0 |
| Austin, Texas | NA | 14 | 0 |
| Kerns, West Virginia | 1 | NA | 0 |
| Seattle, Washington | 1 | 5 | 0 |
| Vietnam | NA | 18 | 0 |
| China | NA | 5 | 0 |
| Honduras | NA | 2 | 0 |
| Madagascar | NA | 5 | 0 |
| Mexico | 1 | 2 | 0 |
| Nicaragua | 1 | 11 | 0 |
| Peru | NA | 16 | 0 |
| Russia | 30 | NA | 0 |
*NA, no samples were available.