date:Jan 12, 2017
, in addition to the United States, were enforcing tighter controls over Egyptian agricultural commodities, in the wake of the US report that noted that some Egyptian crops caused hepatitis. Only recently have Kuwait and Saudi Arabia softened their restrictions on the import of Egyptian agricultural products.
The crisis started in September 2016, when the US Centres for Disease Control and Prevention announced that 89 people had been infected with hepatitis A in seven US states after consuming