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Hepatitis Update:
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There are now 7 types of Hepatitis viruses: A, B, C, D, E, F, G.
The most common are Type A, B and C.
All hepatitis viruses can cause acute hepatitis.
Viral hepatitis types B, C, and D can cause chronic hepatitis.
Hepatitis B together with D has been found to cause more complications in patients than Hepatitis B alone.
New drugs like
lamivudine,
adefovir,
entecavir and
telbivudine
has been approved by FDa for treatment of hepatitis B.
Hepatitis C is now curable with the new drugs.
There are also many drugs on trial at the moment which can potentially cure HBV and HCV
