Nearly 20 per cent of the people in Southeast Asia are carriers of hepatitis B, one of the deadliest diseases of modern times.
In India, 4-4.75 per cent carry the virus. Only less than 2 per cent of Americans are carriers, but the incidence rate is much higher among Asians living in the US.
"Many studies have shown that in Asian and African populations, hepatitis virus has much more chances to cause chronic carrier problems rather than in the White population. It could be the genetic susceptibility of the population that is causing the problem," says Dr S P Thyagarajan, head of the Department of Microbiology at the Madras University's Dr A L Mudaliar Institute of Post-graduate Medical Sciences. Read more...
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