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B viral load," said Kathy Ordonez, president, Celera. "The five tests now approved for sale in Europe on the m2000 system reinforce the system's breadth of menu as a competitive advantage." About Hepatitis B According to the World Health Organization, hepatitis B is a serious global public health problem, but preventable with safe and effective vaccines that have been available since 1982. Of the two billion people who have been infected with the hepatitis B virus, more than 350 million have chronic (lifelong) infections. These chronically infected persons are at high risk of death from cirrhosis of the liver and liver cancer, diseases that kill about one million people each year. Although the vaccine will not cure chronic hepatitis, it is 95 percent effective in preventing chronic infections from developing. The prevalence of HBV infection and the method of transmission vary greatly around the world. In countries with a high prevalence of chronic HBV infection, the most common route of infection is from mother to child at birth or from child to child during early childhood.

In areas of low prevalence, the infection is usually acquired during adulthood through intravenous drug use or high-risk sexual activity.




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