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Global Hepatitis Report 2024 – WHO
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- India accounted for the second-highest number of cases of hepatitis B and C in 2022 after China, with 3.5 crore infections.
- India is accounted for 11.6% of the total disease burden globally that year.
- Hepatitis is an inflammation of the liver that can cause a range of health problems and can be fatal.
- 254 million people lived with hepatitis B and 50 million with hepatitis C in 2022 globally.
- India has registered 2.98 crore hepatitis B cases in 2022 while the number of hepatitis C infections stood at 55 lakhs.
- China registered 8.3 crore cases of hepatitis B and C, representing 27.5% of the total disease burden.
- There are five main strains of the hepatitis virus, referred to as types A, B, C, D and E.
- They all cause liver disease but they differ in important ways including modes of transmission.
- Types B and C lead to chronic disease in hundreds of millions of people.
- Every day, there are 3,500 people dying globally due to hepatitis B and C infections.
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