The Latest Breaking News from Hepatitis

While most medical attention has been on COVID, work has been underway to eliminate another viral disease, hepatitis C.

NEW DELHI: A survey conducted by Institute of Liver and Biliary Sciences (ILBS) shows only about 34% of the people in Delhi have received hepatitis B vaccination. Not just that, awareness about hepatitis, which claims more lives than HIV, malaria and dengue combined, remains low.

Top doctors at a webinar, organised on the eve of World Hepatitis Day, said 90% of chronic liver illness starts with vertical transmission from mother-to-child at birth but the condition manifests years later

Between April and July of this year, 1,010 cases of severe hepatitis without any explainable cause were reported in children in more than 35 countries. Nearly half of these cases were in Europe, including over a quarter in the UK.

Two studies have found a link between a common childhood bug and the mysterious spike in hepatitis cases among children in the UK recently. Adenovirus infects nearly everyone in childhood

Around 3,000 people in Scotland contracted Hepatitis C and HIV in the 1970s and 1980s through blood products used to treat conditions like haemophilia.

20 probable cases of children with hepatitis of unknown cause have been identified in Ireland since March

Researchers from London and Glasgow have investigated the outbreak of acute hepatitis in young children and they have discovered the cause - which is not down to Covid

Scientists say two common viruses made a comeback after pandemic lockdowns ended to trigger the rare but very serious cases