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Hepatitis: a threat that cannot be ignored
While the High Authority of Health calls for the generalization of the proposed routine testing for HIV / AIDS, Hepatitis SOS (Association of patients with a chronic liver disease) is a lack of consideration of all stakeholders in the system Health on the issue of screening for viral hepatitis.
According to the Weekly Epidemiological Bulletin of May 19, 2009 (Institute of Health Surveillance) over 500 000 people are carriers of chronic viral hepatitis (232 hepatitis C 000, 281 000 hepatitis B) and nearly 50% do not know and not yet detected. More than 250 000 people living in France with a virus that can potentially destroy their livers.
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Tags: hepatitis, hepatitis A, hepatitis B, hepatitis C, infection, liver, liver failure, symptoms, virus | 
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