Assuring full immunisation coverage by 2020, the health minister on Thursday said that unvaccinated districts will be targeted in a phase wise manner.

Ghagga (Gidderbaha), Dec 14 : Babu Singh, Surjit Singh, Malkit Singh, brothers Angrej Singh and Harnek Singh of Ghagga village in Gidderbaha sub-division have reportedly died due to hepatitis-B, C.

Panic triggered by the high prevalence of cancer, hepatitis and other diseases in Mari Mustafa village of the district entered the political realm today.

PANAJI: Forty-three cases of hepatitis C have been detected among 700-odd injecting drug users, also called IDUs, in Goa.

Accusing the state government of not paying attention to the pollution caused by a private paper mill in Rupana village on the Muktsar-Malout highway, residents of 10 villages have vowed to fight a

Spurt in malaria cases alarms health officialsHyderabad:
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Studies undertaken by medical experts point towards an intermediate level of endemicity of Hepatitis B virus in Uttarakhand and hold risk factors like blood transfusion, intra familial transmission

Ten regional laboratories will be established under the National Communicable Disease Centre (NCDC) for viral hepatitis surveillance across the country.

Awareness campaigns similar to those of polio or HIV are needed for hepatitis in India, stressed experts at AIIMS today during an awareness programme organised to mark World Hepatitis Day.

Hepatitis C virus (HCV) exhibits high genetic diversity, characterized by regional variations in genotype prevalence. This poses a challenge to the improved development of vaccines and pan-genotypic treatments, which require the consideration of global trends in HCV genotype prevalence. Here we provide the first comprehensive survey of these trends.

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