In China alone, less than 1% of children under 5 are chronic carriers of hepatitis B, down from 10% a decade ago.

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Some people who get salmonella infection become chronic carriers, meaning they continue to excrete the bacteria in their feces or, rarely, urine for a year or more after their signs and symptoms clear up.

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Cordani notes that administrative costs for health insurance carriers will go up, pushing Cigna to not just encourage more lifestyle and chronic care management programs in China, but in the U.S. as well as a way to off-set some of these anticipated costs.

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