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Mohamed Ezz El-Arab, founder of the liver tumor unit at the National Liver Institute in Egypt, and medical advisor at the Egyptian Center for the Right to Medicine, said that the word "contagious" Scientifically speaking, it is called . A . virus However, the media used to use the same term for some very common types, such as the C virus in Egypt.
Causes of infection
Ezz Al-Arab explains, in an interview with"Sky News Arabia"that both virus A and E are transmitted through food and drink, while virus B, which is accompanied by D . virus Likewise, the C virus is transmitted through blood and its derivatives, meaning that any sharp object contaminated with these types of viruses and that can penetrate the skin or mucous membrane may infect a healthy person.
Global danger of hepatitis viruses
Ezz Al-Arab confirms that dedicating a World Day to the World Health Organization for viral hepatitis It comes because of its global severity, as acute hepatitis A and E caused the deaths of 78,000 people worldwide, according to the World Health Organization’s 2019 statistic, andchronic hepatitis Its complications cause the death of more than one million people annually, as well as the physical disability of the affected person, and the impact of treatment costs on the rest of the household as a result of the economic burden.
The most dangerous type of hepatitis virus
According to Ezz Al-Arab: "The most dangerous type Viruses It is what causes a higher death rate as a result of chronic hepatitis, for example, hepatitis A and virus E do not cause chronic liver infections, and the disease is in the form of acute symptoms only, unless the patient has a defect in the immune system in the case of the E virus, and the meaning of the word chronic hepatitis It is the persistence of the virus in the body for more than 6 months".
He continued: "The most dangerous are viruses B, C and virus D, which are associated with type B, because a proportion of those infected with these types suffer from complications of chronic hepatitis. as cirrhosis of the liverFor example, virus C enters 85 percent of those infected with it in the role of chronic hepatitis, and one fifth of this percentage will develop cirrhosis over a period of 20 or 25 years.".
cirrhosis
Ezz Al-Arab explains that cirrhosis of the liver is of two types, the first is equivalent cirrhosis, and the other is uneven cirrhosis, and the latter is very dangerous and has symptoms such as ascites, encephalopathy, andliver tumorsBleeding from esophageal or stomach varices, kidney failure caused by liver failure, and between 2 to 8 percent of people with cirrhosis annually develop liver cancer, hence the importance of early detection of liver cancer for people with cirrhosis.
Treatment methods and the Egyptian experience
As for treatment methods, Ezz Al-Arab indicates that the C virus was the first health problem in Egypt before 2015, but effective medicines such as sovaldi It kills the virus with an efficiency greater than 95 percent.
He added: Egypt relied on Egyptian medicines similar to Sovaldi, which caused the treatment of millions in Egypt in record time. From 2014 until now, more than 4 million patients in Egypt have been treated with similar Egyptian medicines.
vaccinations
points "Ezz Al Arab" To the existence of vaccinations for the B virus, which is mandatory in some countries, such as Egypt, which adopted it since 1992. There is also a vaccination for hepatitis A and E, but virus C has no vaccination, and the most important thing is to prevent infection, which is the biggest challenge.
He continued: "Some countries and places in the world are still suffering from the spread of hepatitis virusesAlthough most countries in America, Europe and the Middle East have effective drugs against the C virus, the World Health Organization focuses on shedding light on African countries that suffer from the spread of the B virus in many of their poor countries, a virus whose problem is that it unites with the cell nucleus and does not There is a definitive treatment for it so far, such as the C virus, but we are currently in the second stage of finding a treatment for this virus, which is expected to be available within a period of 3 to five years.".
Corona effect
And Dr. Muhammad Ezz Al-Arab concludes his speech by referring to the role of the spread Corona epidemic And its effect on the spread of hepatitis viruses, saying: "The impact of Corona was represented in the lack of health care services for people with hepatitis, due to the partial and total ban, as well as the disruption of research on hepatitis viruses, and the reduction of financial support allocated to it, stressing that there is no direct relationship between the Corona virus and the occurrence of hepatitis viruses due to the difference ways of infection".
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Mohamed Ezz Al-Arab, founder of the liver tumor unit at the National Liver Institute in Egypt, and medical advisor at the Egyptian Center for the Right to Medicine, said that the word “epidemiological” is scientifically termed A . virus However, the media used to use the same term for some very common types, such as the C virus in Egypt.
Causes of infection
Ezz Al-Arab explains, in an interview with “Sky News Arabia”, that both the A and E virus are transmitted through food and drink, while the B virus, which is accompanied by D . virus Likewise, the C virus is transmitted through blood and its derivatives, meaning that any sharp object contaminated with these types of viruses and that can penetrate the skin or mucous membrane may infect a healthy person.
Global danger of hepatitis viruses
Ezz Al-Arab confirms that dedicating a World Day to the World Health Organization for viral hepatitis It comes because of its global severity, as acute hepatitis A and E caused the deaths of 78,000 people worldwide, according to the World Health Organization’s 2019 statistic, andchronic hepatitis Its complications cause the death of more than one million people annually, as well as the physical disability of the affected person, and the impact of treatment costs on the rest of the household as a result of the economic burden.
The most dangerous type of hepatitis virus
According to Ezz Al-Arab: “The most dangerous type of Viruses It is what causes a higher death rate as a result of chronic hepatitis, for example, hepatitis A and virus E do not cause chronic liver infections, and the disease is in the form of acute symptoms only, unless the patient has a defect in the immune system in the case of the E virus, and the meaning of the word chronic hepatitis It is the persistence of the virus in the body for more than 6 months.
And he continues: “The most dangerous are viruses B, C and virus D, which are associated with type B, because a proportion of those infected with these types suffer from complications of chronic hepatitis.” as cirrhosis of the liverFor example, virus C enters 85 percent of those infected with it in the role of chronic hepatitis, and one fifth of this percentage will develop cirrhosis over a period of 20 or 25 years.
cirrhosis
Ezz Al-Arab explains that cirrhosis of the liver is of two types, the first is equivalent cirrhosis, and the other is uneven cirrhosis, and the latter is very dangerous and has symptoms such as ascites, encephalopathy, andliver tumorsBleeding from esophageal or stomach varices, kidney failure caused by liver failure, and between 2 to 8 percent of people with cirrhosis annually develop liver cancer, hence the importance of early detection of liver cancer for people with cirrhosis.
Treatment methods and the Egyptian experience
As for treatment methods, Ezz Al-Arab indicates that the C virus was the first health problem in Egypt before 2015, but effective medicines such as sovaldi It kills the virus with an efficiency greater than 95 percent.
He added: Egypt relied on Egyptian medicines similar to Sovaldi, which caused the treatment of millions in Egypt in record time. From 2014 until now, more than 4 million patients in Egypt have been treated with similar Egyptian medicines.
vaccinations
“Ezz Al-Arab” refers to the existence of vaccinations for the B virus, which is mandatory in some countries, such as Egypt, which adopted it since 1992. There is also a vaccination for hepatitis A and E, but virus C has no vaccination, and most importantly, preventing infection, which is the biggest challenge.
And he continues: “Some countries and places in the world are still suffering from the spread hepatitis virusesAlthough most countries in America, Europe and the Middle East have effective drugs against the C virus, the World Health Organization focuses on shedding light on African countries that suffer from the spread of the B virus in many of their poor countries, a virus whose problem is that it unites with the cell nucleus and does not There is a definitive treatment for it so far, such as virus C, but we are currently in the second stage of finding a treatment for this virus, which is expected to be available within a period of three to five years.”
Corona effect
And Dr. Muhammad Ezz Al-Arab concludes his speech by referring to the role of the spread Corona epidemic And its impact on the spread of hepatitis viruses, saying: “The impact of Corona was represented in the lack of health care services for people with hepatitis, due to the partial and total ban, as well as the disruption of research on hepatitis viruses, and the reduction of financial support allocated to it, stressing that there is no direct relationship between the Corona virus and the occurrence of hepatitis.” Hepatitis viruses due to different ways of infection“.