It is also the eighth installment in a series on hepatitis D virus, a virusoid-like pathogen that causes serious human disease. You may read the others on Forbes or www.williamhaseltine.com.

Recent data report that HDV IgM levels correlate with histological inflammatory activity, and support the use of quantitative anti-HDV IgM as an indicator of disease activity in hepatitis D.

Over the last few decades, wild boar populations have increased in the urban areas of Barcelona and in other parts of Catalonia. This wild animal is an important reservoir of the hepatitis E virus, ...