Today we celebrate World Hepatitis Day – KISS FM

This day aims to highlight the importance of comprehensive and coordinated measures to combat this disease worldwide.

This day is celebrated annually on July 28. This is a critical date to raise awareness and mobilize the global community to fight this serious disease.. World Health Organization (WHO) and the Pan American Health Organization (OPS) have led global efforts to combat the infection through prevention, diagnosis and treatment strategies.

Happy celebration of this day, WHO has set a target of reducing by 90% the likelihood of new hepatitis infections in any of its forms A, B, C, D or E and avoiding the 65% of deaths that occur year after year following infection with viral hepatitis..

Spain aims to become one of the first countries in the world to completely eliminate hepatitis C. It is a chronic viral infection for which there is no vaccine. However, there is a treatment that cures it. It is more, It is estimated that there are about 20,000 people in our country who suffer from this disease and do not know about it.Many of them undoubtedly belong to vulnerable groups.

In this sense, Health recommends that people over 40-70 years of age take a blood test to rule out the presence of an infection in the body in order to receive appropriate treatment. This is because of hepatitis C does not cause symptoms until the disease reaches a more serious stage, which can lead to liver cancer or cirrhosis.

What is viral hepatitis?

It is an infection that causes acute inflammation of the liverThere are 5 different viruses, each designated by a letter of the alphabet. The further from A, the higher the risk of infection. In most cases, liver inflammation begins suddenly and lasts only a few weeks.

The most common way to become infected with hepatitis is contact of an object contaminated with the blood of a person carrying a virus with our bodyThis often happens to people who get tattoos and piercings and have multiple sexual partners.

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