ROMANIA:  A European Home to Hepatitis
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BUCHAREST, Feb 19 (IPS) - About two million of Romaniaâs 22 million people   are carrying some form of hepatitis, in the  highest infection  rates in Europe.
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Hepatitis B has been referred to as the silent killer within the Asian/Pacific Islander community. It&#39;s an asymptomatic disease that often leads to liver cancer.
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The deadly viral infection Hepatitis E has broken out among refugees from Sudan&#39;s Darfur region at two camps in eastern Chad and may have passed into the local community, aid workers said on Friday.
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Bilancio influenzato da svalutazioni e caduta dei ricavi
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Tests on H5N1 bird flu viruses found in Britain and Hungary showed they were genetically almost identical and the most likely transmission route was from poultry to poultry, Britain said on Tuesday.
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Health ministers and experts from across Europe are meeting in Lithuania to discuss efforts to prevent an epidemic of HIV/Aids. They will debate an EU report which says rates of new infections in Russia and ...
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Many infectious diseases have been eradicated in Europe but new infections and drug resistant microbes pose a new threat, a new EU report presented Thursday in Stockholm showed.
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ROME -- Most of the scattered bird flu outbreaks so far this year probably can be traced to illegal or improper trade in poultry, scientists say. That includes recent outbreaks in Nigeria and Egypt as well as the large outbreak on a turkey farm in England.
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An experimental vaccine can prevent more than 95 percent of infections with hepatitis E but its makers said on Wednesday they need to find a way to make it cheaply available in the poor countries that need it most.
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LONDON: The United Kingdom has exported to 'at least 11 countries' blood products at risk of contamination with the prion responsible for variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease (vCJD), the human form of mad cow ...
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NEW YORK  - African Americans and Hispanics with primary biliary cirrhosis -- a rare form of cirrhosis characterized by the destruction of small bile ducts in the liver -- often present with more severe disease than their Caucasian counterparts, results of a study suggest.
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OTTAWA (CP) - In a major policy shift, the federal government says it will consider compensating thousands of people infected with hepatitis C through tainted blood before 1986 and after 1990.
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A new study shows that PEGASYS provides a significantly greater proportion of patients with lasting remission compared to the current standard of care, lamivudine, in the treatment of chronic hepatitis B. The study was conducted in patients with &#39;e
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BRUSSELS, Dec 13 (IPS) - AIDS has become a "forgotten disease" in  the European Union, according to the man in charge of the  bloc's public health policies.
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MONDAY, Sept. 11 (HealthDay News) -- The anti-inflammatory drug colchicine, often used to treat gout and psoriasis, appeared to prevent liver cancer in patients with hepatitis virus-related end-stage liver disease, Mexican researchers report.
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OTTAWA - A compensation fund for people who contracted hepatitis C through tainted blood between 1986 and 1990 could be extended to those who got the disease outside that time frame, the federal health minister said Wednesday.
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KELOWNA - As many as 2,400 people from around the world might have been exposed to the hepatitis A virus through an infected worker at a popular Kelowna restaurant, health officials said Wednesday.