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The world is on the threshold of the hepatitis epidemic
Last reviewed: 16.10.2021
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1/3 of all inhabitants of the Earth is infected with a virus that causes hepatitis and kills about a million people annually. Such data was published by the World Health Organization (WHO).
Meanwhile, many carriers of the virus do not suspect this and pass it on to other people. According to WHO, insufficient attention is paid to this problem in the world. In this hepatitis can be transmitted in many ways: through water, food, blood, sperm and other biological fluids. The disease can provoke real epidemics, threatening a massive disease of cancer and cirrhosis of the liver.
Of all the hepatitis viruses, type B is the most common. It is transmitted from mother to child during childbirth or in childhood and through injections. But type E is transmitted through contaminated water and food (it is often recorded in developing countries). In this vaccine against it is not particularly common.