At least one-third of the world's population has been infected with the hepatitis B virus ... a vaccine against HBV. In regions of the world where HBV is hyper-endemic, infection is most ...

up to 50% of confirmed cases of hepatitis A and B in Europe are still acquired during travel. [1] This reflects an increasing trend in travel to endemic regions and illustrates that current ...

News that a health worker at a Sydney hospital’s birth unit was infectious with hepatitis B for more than a decade ... The worst infected regions are Africa and the Western Pacific.

Somchai, a Thai native, was 21 years old and faced a double threat to his long-term health and wellbeing. He was living with ...

chronic hepatitis B was documented to be at 16.7 percent, and from a 2018 World Health Organization (WHO) Western Pacific ...

Exclusion of hepatitis B virus surface antigen (HBsAg ... for the availability of solid organs for transplantation in regions endemic for HBV.