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Hepatitis F is a hypothetical virus linked to hepatitis. This is
also known as a nonexistent virus as well. Most
recently, in 1994 Deka et al reported that novel viral particles
had been discovered in the stool of post-transfusion, non-hepatitis
A, non-hepatitis B, non-hepatitis C, non-hepatitis
E patients.
> Injection of these particles, into the bloodstream of Indian
rhesus monkeys caused hepatitis, and the virus
was named hepatitis F, or Toga virus.
> Further investigations failed to confirm the existence of the
virus, and it was delisted
as a cause for infectious hepatitis.
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