Inflamed liver Hepatitis is now very treatable

Jaundice: World Hepatitis Day draws attention to the disease
Under the motto "Preventing Hepatitis - It's up to You", World Hepatitis Day will take place on July 28th. The day of action should help to clarify the disease and to contribute to the early detection of inflammation of the liver.

Liver infections with hepatitis viruses can be treated successfully in many cases today. (Image: bluebay2014 / fotolia.com)

Prevent Hepatitis - It's up to you "
The theme of World Hepatitis Day on July 28 is "Preventing Hepatitis - It's up to you". The World Health Organization (WHO) had launched the 2011 Day of Action to raise awareness of the threat of infectious disease. As the news agency dpa reports, the German Liver Foundation has now called for a better education on the often undiscovered disease in view of the World Hepatitis Day. Over one million people in Germany suffer from viral hepatitis, and many of them are unaware of it. Cirrhosis or liver cancer can be the result. "One problem is that liver disease often goes undetected. Therefore, we have to search specifically for it, "said the Foundation's CEO, Michael Manns. The professor at the Hannover Medical School has also participated in the development of new drugs for hepatitis C according to the dpa report.

Many patients do not know about their infection
Patients often do not know about their liver inflammation, the experts had recently reported. And although, for example, hepatitis C can almost always be cured with the help of medication. Since so many people in Germany are infected with hepatitis viruses and do not know it, health experts sometimes speak of a silent epidemic. Only around one-third of sufferers develop the typical jaundice, one third of the infected only noticed flu symptoms such as fever, body aches, nausea, loss of appetite, headache or fatigue and another third feel nothing of the disease. The long-term consequences, however, can be life-threatening. (Ad)