Every day three new people suffering from some forms of hepatitis are detected. Currently in the world, the number of sick goes up to half a billion people. Disease has no symptoms and many can carry the disease for more than a decade.
It is Worlds day of awareness of viral hepatitis, and in many countries will be committed this week to adopting an action plan for prevention and treatment of these diseases. 'Am I number 12?
Recently when I was tested I was not number 12, but you never know, 'said Vince Adrijana, head of the Center for diagnosis and treatment of viral hepatitis. World campaign 'Am I number 12? was launched last year, and will last until 2012. It is based on the fact that the data the World Health Organization says that every 12 resident of planet Earth has a chronic hepatitis B or C.
It is Worlds day of awareness of viral hepatitis, and in many countries will be committed this week to adopting an action plan for prevention and treatment of these diseases. 'Am I number 12?
Recently when I was tested I was not number 12, but you never know, 'said Vince Adrijana, head of the Center for diagnosis and treatment of viral hepatitis. World campaign 'Am I number 12? was launched last year, and will last until 2012. It is based on the fact that the data the World Health Organization says that every 12 resident of planet Earth has a chronic hepatitis B or C.
Hepatitis B is usually transmitted through sex. In 80 percent of the cases, the main way of getting hepatitis C is by the drug addicts infected with a virus. Along with addicts there is another risk group. They are war veterans, or about all the people that were in the war-affected areas because only since the April of 1993.- testing the blood on hepatitis C started. A person can be infected for years, without knowing it, and therefore may unknowingly spread the infection. The symptoms are almost invisible. The most common is chronic fatigue.
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