Table 1.

Hepatitis E virus (HEV) seroprevalence and viremia in blood donors in developed countries

Country	HEV immunoglobulin G (IgG) seroprevalence	HEV RNA positive	References
Highly endemic countries
The Netherlands	27.0%	1:2671	Slot et al. 2013
		1:600	Zaaijer 2015
France	22.4%		Mansuy et al. 2016
		1:2218	Gallian et al. 2014
		1:744	Gallian et al. 2017
Germany	29.5%	1:1200	Vollmer et al. 2012
China	32.6%	1:1493	Guo et al. 2010
Low/intermediate endemic countries
England	12.2%	1:2848	Hewitt et al. 2014
	16%	1:7000	Ijaz et al. 2012
	12%		Beale 2011
Scotland	4.7%	1:14520	Cleland et al. 2013
Ireland	5.3%	1:5000	O’Riordan et al. 2016
Denmark		1:2330	Harritshoj 2016
Sweden		1:7986	Baylis et al. 2012
Austria	13.5%	1:8416	Fischer et al. 2015
Spain	19.9%	1:3333	Sauleda et al. 2015
United States	16%	-	Xu et al. 2013
		1:9500	Stramer et al. 2016
Australia	6%	-	Shrestha et al. 2014
		1:14799 1:74131	Shrestha et al. 2016a; Hoad et al. 2017
New Zealand	4%		Dalton et al. 2007
Fiji	2%		Halliday et al. 2014
Japan		1:8173	Minagi et al. 2016
		1:15075