Hepatitis C — Worldwide/Unknown
Italy leads Europe in cases of hepatitis C, with 3 per cent of the population infected, more than half of whom suffer from the most difficult variety to treat, leading experts said on Tuesday [11 Jun 2013].
Some 1.6 million people carry the liver infection in Italy, and 55 per cent of them are afflicted with genotype 1, a particularly infectious strain of the disease, said doctors at the Premio Giornalistico Riccardo Tomassetti conference on virology in Milan. “At least one million Italians
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