THE MENACE OF HEPATITIS B AND C ARE WE RESPONSIBLE FOR IT?

The whole world is facing the peril of chronic viral hepatitis that has emerged as an immensepublic health problem over the past two or three decades. amongst them, hepatitis b andhepatitis c viruses (hbv & hcv) have a significant global impact. hbsag was discovered by1 blumberg and his colleagues in 1963 while in 1967 dane and co-workers discovered viral like2 particles which carried hbsag on their surface . today there are more than 2 billion individualswith serological evidence of hepatitis b infection worldwide. of these, 400 million are chronic3,4 carriers and 0.5 to 1.2 million will die annually from cirrhosis and hepatocellular carcinoma