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A National Strategy for the Elimination of Hepatitis B and C

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An ad hoc committee under the auspices of the Institute of Medicine will be convened to complete a two phase study on hepatitis B and C elimination.

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Hepatitis B and C cause most cases of hepatitis in the United States and the world. The two diseases account for about a million deaths a year and 78 percent of world's hepatocellular carcinoma and more than half of all fatal cirrhosis. In 2013 viral hepatitis, of which hepatitis B virus (HBV) and h...

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