Hepatitis Kills As Many, Even More People Worldwide, Like AIDS

Common impressions in the medical field include AIDS being the scariest or deadliest virus in the world because before it doesn't have cure. This myth has been debunked by mortality rates.

According to the medical magazine 'The Lancet," hepatitis has been the main cause of death in all over the world. Researchers from Washington University and researchers from London's Imperial College has reported that almost two million people die from the hepatitis virus annually. People die due to infections fibrosis and liver cancer. The researcher also observed that hepatitis is deadlier than aids.

The international study conducted by the Imperial College of London and University of Washington analyzes the data and statistics of the mortality rate all around the world.

According to the researchers, the conclusions should open the eyes of the people all around the world on how deadly this hepatitis virus is. The death caused by this virus has risen 63% from years 1990 to 2013. They also found out that the kind of hepatitis virus leading the global kill are types B and C. These virus causes Cirrhosis and liver cancer.

Hepatitis is the inflammation of the liver which causes the liver not to function well. Aids which is also called Acquired immunodeficiency syndrome is the stage of infection that occurs when the immune system of an individual is terribly damaged by HIV. HIV is the virus that attacks the immune system specifically the CD4 cell, which helps fight infections.

A short comparison of Hepatitis and Aids is hepa virus spreads quicker that aids. In all the types of hepatitis, only heap B has vaccine while recent discoveries suggest that aids already has a vaccine. Hepatitis can be transmitted through bodily fluids except for type A and E which spreads through food contaminated with feces while Aids can be transmitted through blood, semen, vaginal secretions and breast milk.