We have known from the very beginning of the HIV epidemic that sharing needles and other drug-related paraphernalia is associated with transmission of HIV and other infectious diseases including hepatitis B and C.

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Thus far, much of the molecular diagnostics field has concentrated on infectious diseases, detecting HIV, hepatitis C and sexually transmitted diseases like chlamydia.

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The United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA), which looks after Palestinian refugees across the Middle East, says that the rate of infectious diseases, including diarrhoea and viral hepatitis, which result from bad water and sanitation, has risen.

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The researchers said that people were more infectious at in the early days of catching hepatitis C because they had higher levels of virus.

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