hepatitis

Definitions

Examples

• The vaccine against the hepatitis B virus, for example, works this way.

• Sinovac founder Yin Weidong, a doctor, started his career in the 1980s in China’s northern city of Tangshan, where he investigated hepatitis outbreaks as part of a municipal public health agency.

• One common immunization that already uses this technique is the hepatitis B vaccine.

• This is consistent with several other vaccines, including hepatitis B, measles, mumps and rubella.

• As many as half of patients failed to get their second dose of the hepatitis B vaccine, for example.

• He contracted Hepatitis C from drug use, which was a contributory factor in his death.

• Hepatitis B plays by the same rules, though the rates of transmission are about 10 times more frequent.

• Over time, he can transmit a bloodborne disease such as hepatitis C to the patients he is “sharing” narcotics with.

• If left untreated, hepatitis C causes liver damage over the course of decades.

• If treated early enough, 50 to 80 percent of people who contract Hepatitis C are cured.

• It differs however essentially from that attending hepatitis, from its not being accompanied with fever.

• Suppose a man to be attacked with hepatitis, (inflammation of the liver:) he has a pain in the right shoulder.

• But when the hepatitis is of septic origin, suppuration is likely to occur, the result being an hepatic abscess.

• A very grave case of hepatitis endangered his life seriously.

• Obscure lameness in front, of the right leg mostly, may be a symptom of hepatitis.