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‘High-risk North East faces Hepatitis scourge’
Nagaland Post | Agencies | Guwahati, Jan 18 ():
The incidence of liver diseases in the Northeast is thrice that of the national average, said Naimish Mehta, a senior liver transplant surgeon at New Delhi’s Sir Ganga Ram Hospital, on Saturday.
He said the Northeast requires around 300 liver transplants, a hugely expensive procedure, every year. While the country falls under an ‘intermediate’ Hepatitis B prevalence zone, the Northeast is surrounded by a ‘high-risk’ zone. India’s Hepatitis B prevalence rate varies between two and seven percent, but countries bordering the Northeast, like China and the South East Asian nations, have a prevalence rate of more than eight percent.
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