The Spread Of Viral Hepatitis

In The Invisible Cure, Helen Epstein talks about why HIV/AIDS rate is so high in Africa compared to the rest of the world. Through the book, she gives us an account of the disease and the struggles that many health experts and ordinary Africans went through to understand this disease, and how different African countries approached the same problem differently. Through this paper, I will first address the different ways Uganda and Southern African countries, South Africa and Botswana in particular, dealt with this epidemic, and then explain how we can use what we have learned from these African countries to control outbreaks of communicable disease elsewhere around the world.

12- Hepatitis A- is usually not a serious illness. It is prevalent in developing countries, especially those with overcrowding and poor sanitation, in men who have sex with men, and injecting drug users.

The residents of Africa are suffering from preventable, treatable, and fatal diseases everyday at a higher rate compared to developed countries. The healthcare crisis in Africa is the primary cause of all these deaths, and includes inefficient healthcare systems. Consequently, African's inefficient healthcare systems results in poor delivery of care and a shortage of health professionals. The healthcare crisis in Africa is a current issue impacting the lives of many African's who don't have the same access to resources as developed countries such as the United States. These resources can save the lives of many African's dying of preventable and curable disease, and understanding why the African continent has little access to them

There are a number of individuals who may be suffering from an illness and not even be aware they have an illness. One example of such illness is Hepatitis C (HCV). Hepatitis C is a severe disease of the liver. It is caused by the Hepatitis C virus (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), 2015). As a result, Hepatitis C has been termed a silent epidemic (CDC, 2015). This is because a lot of individuals have Hepatitis C and don’t even realize they have the infection (CDC, 2015). As the infection begins to progress over time, it could cause acute issues to the liver (CDC, 2015). Those issues could be things like damage to the liver, the liver could fail to function, cirrhosis, or even cancer of the liver (CDC, 2015). However, screening for Hepatitis C will allow an individual to benefit from treatments that are available, hence eliminating the disease from the body and preventing the liver from undergoing any further damage (CDC, 2015).

According to the Center for Disease Control and Prevention, “HAV is found in the stool of people who have Hepatitis A. It is usually spread by close personal contact and sometimes by eating food or drinking water containing HAV.”(Anonymous, 2011, para.2) HAV can be easily spread from person to person just by one not washing their hands properly before handling food or water.

Despite the high incidence of hepatitis B and other liver diseases in Africa, there is very limited expertise in their management. For this reason, I decided to come to America to pursue further training and follow my dream of becoming an international expert in the management of liver

In New York City the Willowbrook State School (1947-1987) was supported for mentally disabled children by the state. The school had too many children with 2,000 or more students more than the school was even suppose to have. Families would give up the children to this lifestyle of poor and unsanitary conditions. Hepatitis A specifically and other hepatitis diseases were very common within this inhumane school. This disease inside the institution of disabled kids brought up outrageous amounts of controversy because of experiments on the children to try and diagnose their infection. Children with parents consent were the only allowed to be inside the specific study. Although many parents would giver the permission for the kids to be infected with the disease just so that they could be enlisted in the institution that didn’t need any

It is estimated that hepatitis B infects approximately one third of the world population— mostly young adults and teenagers. Of that percentage, about 340 million people are chronically infected meaning they cannot get rid of the virus. Sadly, this statistic leads to the depressing rate of approximately one million hepatitis B related deaths each year (Nguyen, V. T., & Dore, G. J., 2008).

Hepatitis C virus (HCV) is a leading cause of liver disease and is the number-one bloodborne virus in the United States. HCV is a virus identified in 1989 that often results in chronic infection of the blood. This infection harms the human liver, resulting in low-grade inflammation and progressive fibrosis of the liver, cirrhosis, liver cancer and death (CDC, 2011; Pears, 2010). Approximately 1.3-1.9 percent of the population of the United States has been infected or is infected with HCV. HCV

Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC, the primary malignancy of the liver) is now the third most common cancer in the world affecting more than half a million people. The incidence of liver cancer varies greatly by race and ethnicity; and about 3 times more common in men than women [6]. The most common type of HCC - caused by Hepatitis B and C viruses (HBV and HCV) are most prevalent in Asia and Africa, as the presence of virus predisposes people to liver disease and subsequently HCC [7]. In such high prevalence areas of the world, HBV infection is often acquired at birth or in early childhood. In the US, Asian American, Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islanders (AANHPI) account for more than 50% of people infected with HBV, although many of them are

The National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases defines Hepatitis A as “a virus, or infection, that causes liver disease and inflammation of the liver.” Hepatitis A is commonly associated with being a sexually transmitted disease, or one caused by blood transfusion. This is a very rare circumstance in which donor’s blood could’ve been infected and was not tested prior to the donation. However, it is not commonly known that Hepatitis A is also a waterborne, and foodborne illness. It mainly affects developing nations or impoverished areas and communities. This is due to lower health standards in some countries, or sanitation services simply not existing.

The leading cause of liver damage due to viral hepatitis B virus and hepatitis C virus represents a major health problem in the United States. “CDC estimates that approximately 3.2 million of Americans are chronically infected with hepatitis C virus, with an estimate of 8,000 to 10,000 hepatitis C virus related deaths annually” (CDC foundation).

Hepatitis is the serious illness that considered one of the most prevalent health problems of the 1990s. The World Health Organization reports that 6.4 million cases of hepatitis treated annually worldwide, especially in the United States, the number of people living with hepatitis about 5 million (4). The most dangerous type of viruses that causes hepatitis is the virus B. The facts say of hepatitis B that "Worldwide, 2 billion people (1 out of 3 people) have been infected with hepatitis. 400 million people have become chronically infected (which means they are unable to get rid of the virus). An estimated 1 million people die each year from hepatitis B and its complications" (7).

We all know energy drinks aren't healthy but they sure taste good sometimes. Be that as it may, you will want to rethink your energy consumption these days. According to a new case report, excessive energy drink consumption may cause hepatitis. For all we know, it causes AIDS too.

Hepatitis B is a viral infection which affects the liver and can cause fatty liver, liver cancer, or cirrhosis. There are two stages of the disease which are acute stage and chronic stage. Many people infected by the Hepatitis B Virus (HBV) will recover whiting the first six months, this is the acute stage. After six months without recovering, the patients develop the chronic stage of the infection, and will be more subjected to develop liver complications later in their life. According to World Health Organization (WHO), “More than 240 million people have chronic (long-term) liver infections. More than 780 000 people die every year due to the acute or chronic consequences of hepatitis B.” (July.2014). Why does one of the most worldwide and