Epidemiologic Study of B Type Hepatitis in North-Eastern Bosnia
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https://doi.org/10.5644/Radovi.281Abstract
Viral hepatitis in Bosnia and Herzegovina is slowly declining. In the past few years hepatitis B has been somewhat more often registered, but still far less than hepatitis A.
In the North-East Bosnia (6 communities) anti-HBs has been found in 10,73% and HBs Ag in 0,62% of healthy carriers.
The large proportion (above 90%) of healthy persons, carriers of anti-HAV, confirms the field findings of numerous epidemics of this type of hepatitis, especially in primary schools and children’s nurseries and kindergartens.
These studies have proved that the higher level of infections with virus of Hepatitis B occur in persons working with human blood and its products (doctors, workers in haemodialysis centres, in blood transfusion stations, in oncology, among laboratory technicians, and particularly among surgeons.
The lethality rate in Hepatitis A has been 0,70%, in Hepatitis type B 1,2%. and for the unspecified type 0,85%.
The delta-virus infections have not been studied so far, but it has to be done in the near future.
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