HEPATITIS B AND C – CREEPING KILLERS
Jun 18, 2019
3 minutes
By GLYNIS HORNING
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There’s another killer stalking silently among us, preying particularly on the most vulnerable – infants and children under the age of five, people with compromised immunity, sex workers, health workers and intravenous drug users. It’s liver infection, caused by the hepatitis B and C viruses. It’s the eighth leading cause of death globally, causing the same number of deaths each year as HIV/ Aids, reports the World Hepatitis Alliance.
“Viral hepatitis is pandemic, recording about 3 000 deaths
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