Hepatitis is one of the most prevalent and serious infectious conditions in the world, but many people - including health policy makers - remain unaware of its staggering toll on global health.

肝炎是世界上流行最普遍、最严重的传染病之一，包括卫生政策制定者在内的许多人至今仍未意识到它对全球卫生带来的惊人损失。

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They say that informal breast-milk sharing puts babies at risk of HIV, hepatitis B and other infectious diseases.

他们说随意的分享母乳，让宝宝们有了被艾滋病毒，B型肝炎和其他传染性疾病感染的危险。

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The hepatitis B virus is 50 to 100 times more infectious than HIV.

乙型肝炎病毒的传染性比艾滋病毒强50至100倍。

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We have known from the very beginning of the HIV epidemic that sharing needles and other drug-related paraphernalia is associated with transmission of HIV and other infectious diseases including hepatitis B and C.

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Thus far, much of the molecular diagnostics field has concentrated on infectious diseases, detecting HIV, hepatitis C and sexually transmitted diseases like chlamydia.

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The United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA), which looks after Palestinian refugees across the Middle East, says that the rate of infectious diseases, including diarrhoea and viral hepatitis, which result from bad water and sanitation, has risen.

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