Hong Kong reports world’s first case of contracting Japanese encephalitis through blood transfusion

Grantham Hospital (Photo: Wikimedia Commons)

The 52-year-old man was fighting for his life at Queen Mary Hospital on Friday. Doctors determined that two others received the same infected blood as the patient, who underwent a lung transplant at Queen Mary in May, followed by a blood transfusion at Grantham Hospital two weeks ago. Doctors said the other two patients had not shown any symptoms.