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Editorial Desk | March 1, 2003, Saturday
The New AIDS Fight; Don't Forget This Infectious Killer

By Ponsiano Ocama and William M. Lee (NYT) 494 words
Late Edition - Final , Section A , Page 19 , Column 4

LEAD PARAGRAPH - AIDS deserves our attention. But so, too, does another infectious disease, one that in the developing world is even more widespread than AIDS -- hepatitis.

Worldwide, 400 million people have hepatitis B, 10 times the number of AIDS cases, and 170 million have hepatitis C. Both cause chronic liver infection that can be fatal, especially in developing countries where treatment is rare and a liver transplant is beyond almost everyone's means. Hepatitis B and C are implicated in 80 percent of cases of liver cancer, the fourth most common cause of cancer deaths worldwide. Cancer resulting from these viruses appears to be increasing in most developing countries as well as in the United States.



 

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