VIRAL INFECTION OF THE LIVER

# HEPATITIS B is a viral infection that attacks the liver and can cause both acute and chronic diseases.
# The virus is transmitted not through casual contact but through contact with the blood or other bodily fluids of an infected person.
# The hepatitis B virus is 50 to 100 times more infectious than HIV.
# A vaccine has been available since 1982 and is 95 per cent effective in preventing infection and its chronic consequences.
# It is the first vaccine against a major human cancer.

Source - NST.