Viral hepatitis will be a more lethal killer than Malaria, Tuberculosis, and HIV combined by 2040 if the current trends in undetected infection and treatment continue is a warning by WHO. It has launched “One Life, One Liver “to scale up testing and treatment for hepatitis which infects liver, causing liver damage and liver cancer. Hepatitis B and C are two viruses that cause the most liver disease and death.
Over 400,000 people die of Hepatitis C annually and of the Two billion infected with Hepatitis B , over 800,000 die every year.
