Hepatitis is a life-threatening condition that causes liver inflammation and can progress to liver cirrhosis or liver cancer if not identified and treated early. That is why the World Health Organization (WHO) took it upon itself to begin World Hepatitis Day; an annual event that celebrates and raises global awareness of all hepatitis-related illnesses. This year’s Hepatitis Day theme Bringing […]

Recent studies of severe acute hepatitis of unknown origin in previously healthy youngsters in many countries have resulted in health alerts and a race to uncover the underlying cause. Between April 5 and May 26, 2022, 650 probable cases of acute hepatitis of unknown etiology in children were reported to WHO from 33 countries in 5 WHO regions. The underlying […]

In May 2022, an outbreak of monkeypox was confirmed, with a high number of cases reported in the United Kingdom. The first verified case of monkeypox occurred on 6 May 2022 in a person with travel ties to Nigeria, although it has been claimed that cases were spreading across Europe in the preceding months. According to CDC statistics from June, […]

Blood donor screening by nucleic acid testing (NAT) was introduced in the mid-to-late 1990s. The German Blood Transfusion Center is the first to begin in-house NAT of its donated 96 hepatitis C virus (HCV), hepatitis B virus (HBV), and human immunodeficiency virus-1 (HIV-1) samples. According to a 2019 study, more than 60 million blood donations worldwide are tested by NAT […]

Monkeypox is a rare disease that is related to smallpox. It is mainly found in the African region, but also in other parts of the world. In fact, Europe has become the epicenter of the monkeypox outbreak in 2022. More than 1,500 cases have been detected in 25 European countries, accounting for 85 percent of global cases, said Dr. Hans […]