T. Jake Liang describes how meeting a patient with fulminant hepatitis led to a collaboration that resulted in the first infectious clone of hepatitis C virus.

Hepatitis C can be transmitted when blood that carries the virus comes into contact with the blood of someone who does not have the virus. This can occur if people share needles or personal care ...

Hepatitis and cirrhosis are both diseases that affect the liver. Since hepatitis and cirrhosis are in many ways on a continuum of disease, the symptoms may be very similar. However, there are a ...

Three tigers and a sub-adult leopard at Gorewada Rescue Centre in Nagpur died from avian flu H5N1. This is the first time the virus caused significant wildlife deaths in captivity in India. Health ...

Three tigers (one tiger and two tigress) and one leopard (female) have died of H5N1 or Avian Influenza (AI) virus at Gorewada Rescue Centre in Maharashtra’s Nagpur. A red alert has been issued ...

Limited and increasingly expensive egg options for grocery shoppers across the region and the nation are becoming common amid the ongoing avian influenza outbreak. The Consumer Price Index shows a ...

The Delaware Department of Agriculture announced Friday morning a commercial broiler flock in Kent County has tested presumptive positive for avian influenza. The flock is being culled to prevent ...

12 HOURS BEFORE REOPENING. AND AVIAN INFLUENZA IS SUSPECTED TO HAVE CAUSED THE DEATHS OF ABOUT 200 SNOW GEESE IN THE GREATER ALLENTOWN AREA, SO DEAD BIRDS WERE FOUND MONDAY IN LOWER NAZARETH ...

A letter sent to the editor of The New England Journal of Medicine signed by Canadian health officials says the British Columbia teenager who tested positive for avian flu has been taken off ...

The hepatitis A virus (HAV) antibody (AB) total test identifies both types of antibodies that the body produces in response to HAV infection. A reactive result means the test has detected HAV ...

Some types of liver disease, like hepatitis C, can often be cured. Others, like liver cirrhosis, can’t, but some treatments can slow them down. Untreated liver disease can lead to liver failure ...