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A silent killer is how National Liver Foundations Dr Samir R Shah refers to Hepatitis B.

It is a disease that you do not have a control over, and it leads to serious liver disease and death, says Dr Shah, a liver specialist with Mumbais Breach Candy and Jaslok Hospital, who had treated former Maharashtra Chief Minister Vilasrao Deshmukh.

Reports say that the former Chief Minister, who passed away on Tuesday, had Hepatitis B and developed cirrhosis of the liver.

About 2-4 per cent of the countrys population carry the Hepatitis B virus and most of them are not aware of it, says Dr Shah.

Of this, about 20 per cent develop serious cancer diseases, he says, urging greater intervention and screening.

Singling out transmission of the virus from a mother to her child as one of the key causes of prevalence, accounting for about 90 per cent of the incidence, he stressed the need for intervention through vaccination.

In the case of a Hepatitis B infected mother, the infant needs to be given its first doze within 12 hours of being born, Dr Shah said, adding that even doctors need to be sensitised to this critical fact.

In Taiwan, a similar intervention is reversing the prevalence of liver cancer in kids, he added.

In India, about 25-40 million people have Hepatitis B and a lakh die each year from serious liver diseases. Globally, about six lakh people die from serious liver ailments.

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Hepatitis B: The silent killer

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DOH-7 nagbantay sa killer virus

FLORENCE, S.C. --

The rumbling of a combine with a hopper full of freshly harvested, golden corn in an Effingham field is a reminder of the great growing season the Pee Dee has had, with a warm winter allowing farmers to plant earlier to benefit from rains that lasted through the summer.

There are other beneficiaries of these conditions as well.

Among the most nefarious of them are mosquitoes who have not only been annoying, but have been spreading lethal diseases at the highest rates in three years.

Perhaps the biggest mosquito-born problem is Eastern equine encephalitis (EEE). After a quiet 2011, the horse-killing disease has returned, with six confirmed cases of the virus in South Carolina horses this year. The Pee Dee has been especially hard hit. Two of the cases were in Horry County, one in Marion, one in Darlington and one in Kershaw. And with months before the first frost, experts predict this could be just the beginning of an especially bad year for horses, who bear the brunt of the attack from a disease that bears their name.

Its been a mess, said Dr. Karen Bolten, a traveling veterinarian with Carolina Equine Clinic South. And it usually gets worse later in the summer. My first case was in the beginning of June, and I foresee it continuing to be bad through the end of summer.

The virus kills nine out of 10 horses infected. Two to five days after a horse is bit by a virus-carrying mosquito, it will begin to show symptoms such as stumbling, circling, head pressing, depression or apprehension, weakness of legs, partial paralysis, inability to stand, muscle twitching or death.

Bolten is on the frontline of the fight against the virus and has seen half of the states confirmed EEE cases. The virus, which can eventually affect a horses neurological function, forced her to euthanize two and hospitalize the other. The third horse did survive.

Bolten recommends owners vaccinate horses twice a year for EEE due to their high exposure to mosquitoes. She recommends having a vet do the job as opposed to buying over-the-counter treatments.

There are a lot more problems with feed-store vaccines, Bolten said. The one woman had vaccinated with feed-store vaccine, and her horse still got it. Its not that stores are mishandling it, but they might not understand proper vaccine handling such as the proper storage temperature.

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By MELODY M. AGUIBA

MANILA, Philippines A contractor of the Industrial Technology Development Institute (ITDI) has struck a deal with Mercury Drug Corp. (MDC) for the distribution nationwide of the ITDI-developed ovicidal-larvicidal (OL) trap, a dengue vector killer trap.

The Heritage Veterinary Corp. (HVC) expects to start within the month the distribution of the OL trap through MDCs 840 outlets nationwide. That will not only make the OL trap easily accessible to all Filipinos as part of the national effort to control the dreaded disease.

It is also generating income for the government.

The company already paid us an upfront cost of P300,000 which goes to the national government. We expect royalty of three percent for the sale of the pellets, said Dr. Nuna E. Almanzor, director of ITDI-Department of Science and Technology (DOST), in an interview.

HVC has invested in an OL trap manufacturing facility that it expects to generate profit in three years. The facility in Quezon City is presently running at a capacity of 16 million sachets of the OL trap pellets monthly. It can produce three times that present production given a 24-hour operation.

The elimination of the vector mosquito must be a key to reducing dengue incidence.

The OL trap works by enticing mosquitoes the dengue virus-carrying aegis aegypti specie into a black plastic cup with the solution that contains the pellets. The solution then kills the eggs or the larvae of the mosquito which is why it is called ovicidal-larvicidal.

The black plastic cup, a lawanit stick, and the OL trap pellets (four sachets of pellets) are all contained in an affordable kit costing only P20 per kit outside of MDC and P25 at MDC.

MDC also has a P100 packaging that has four kits and another packaging that has 16 OL sachets per pack. The P100 packaging is good for a months use since ITDI recommends that each house should keep two OL traps inside their house and another two traps outside their house, according to HVC Vice President Cesar Trajano. Philippine Council for Health Research and Development director Jaime C. Montoya said a quality control system has been put in place by government on HVCs OL trap manufacturing.

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VANCOUVER A B.C.-based salmon-farming company has voluntarily quarantined one of its facilities as officials investigate the apparent outbreak of a dangerous virus.

Greig Seafood says its farm on Culloden Point, in Jervis Inlet on the Sunshine Coast, north of Vancouver, has produced preliminary positive results for the IHN virus.

The Canadian Food Inspection Agency is doing more tests and final confirmation is expected over the weekend.

A release from Greig says the virus is not a risk to humans, and wild fish in the Pacific have a natural immunity, but IHN can be deadly to Atlantic salmon raised in the fish farms.

In May, the virus was confirmed at one Vancouver Island fish farm operated by Mainstream Canada, and all the fish at its Tofino-area facility were destroyed.

Precautionary quarantines were also imposed on two other farms in May, including a Greig Seafood operation on the Sunshine Coast, but final tests showed IHN had not infected those fish.

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