Before the disaster, it suffered from high death rates among babies and high rates of H.I.V./AIDS,hepatitis and other communicable diseases.

VOA: special.2010.02.01

The hepatitis B vaccine is considered to be the first medicine that can protect people against liver cancer.

VOA: special.2010.11.16

Medical science recognized hepatitis E as a separate disease in nineteen eighty.

VOA: special.2010.11.16

or hepatitis are reported, but other possible infections often are not.

VOA: special.2010.02.10

The hepatitis A virus causes high body temperature,pain and weakness.

VOA: special.2010.11.16

There is a vaccine to prevent hepatitis A.

VOA: special.2010.11.16

She is Hepatitis B-positive. "My cousin,who was born in China, actually got very upset and said, 'Please don't talk about it.

VOA: standard.2010.07.26

"Hepatitis B is the silent killer because most people who are chronically infected may not be aware of the infection."

VOA: standard.2010.07.26

There's no known cure for hepatitis B, although the virus can be kept in check with anti-viral medicines.

VOA: standard.2010.07.26

"This is really tragic on a global scale, there's really major neglect about hepatitis B.

VOA: standard.2010.07.26

"Three hundred and fifty million human beings in the world are infected with Hepatitis-B virus.

VOA: standard.2010.02.16

For hepatitis C vaccine we're learning a lot from in vitro or cell-based methods."

VOA: standard.2010.02.16

For now,the battle against hepatitis B is concentrated in communities with large Asian populations.

VOA: standard.2010.07.26

Three hundred million people in the world are infected with Hepatitis-C virus.

VOA: standard.2010.02.16