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England is on track to become one of the first countries in the world to eliminate hepatitis C, a dangerous virus that attacks the liver, figures show.

Across two large trials, roughly 20% of people treated with bepirovirsen had undetectable levels of the virus after stopping all treatment.

Global efforts to combat viral hepatitis are delivering measurable progress in reducing infections and deaths, but the disease remains a major global health challenge, according to a new WHO report released today at the World Hepatitis Summit.

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From Reddit - r/india: India among worst-hit as hepatitis deaths stay high despite global gains: WHO report | India News - The Times of India

Viral hepatitis still kills thousands daily worldwide. WHO calls for urgent scale-up of vaccination, testing, and treatment to reach 2030 elimination goals.

Countries are making measurable progress in combatting viral hepatitis, but the disease remains a major global health challenge, the World Health Organization (WHO) said in a new report published on Tuesday.

Researchers encode the tiny hepatitis D virus in an early step toward “quantum genomics”