Hepatitis C

A baby sleeps in his mother's arms at a mother and child health centre in Mauritania during African Immunization Week.

Spread of hepatitis B in children under five, lowest in decades: WHO

27 July 2020

The global prevalence of potentially-deadly hepatitis B in children under age five, dropped to under one per cent in 2019 – down from five per cent in the pre-vaccine decades between the 1980s and early 2000s, the World Health Organization (WHO) reported on Monday.

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Hepatitis C virus infecting many in Syria

11 January 2017

General News

A growing number of people in Syria are being infected with the virus Hepatitis C according to a survey conducted by the World Health Organisation (WHO).

The study noted with concern that among 21,858 people surveyed across Syria, numerous cases of hepatitis C, which affects the liver, had been registered among vulnerable groups such as kidney dialysis patients and sex workers.

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