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In France, close to 300 000 people are infected by the virus of the B hepatitis and one counts 500 new cases per year. But more of the half of the patients don't discover their state that to the stage of the complications. How to know if you are to risk? Transferable and silent, the infection to the virus of the B hepatitis (VHB) is again extensively under-diagnosed and treated insufficiently. An intolerable situation when one knows that some efficient treatments exist. Of the patients who ignore themselves...The VHB transmits itself by sexual or blood way, or of the mother to the child. At the adult person, in 90% of the cases, it is eliminated naturally of the organism, only letting biologic stigmata of his passage, that means antibodies identified by the serology. But, at a patient out of ten, the B hepatitis evolves toward a chronic shape. In the world, about 350 millions people are touched by a hepatitis chronic B, with a prévalence especially raised in Africa, in Asia and in a part of Latin America. In France, 280 821 personnes1 is touched by a hepatitis chronic B. More of the half of people contaminated by the virus of the B hepatitis ignore that they are bearers of the virus. Because one can be carrier of the virus, and therefore sick, and to endure no symptom. ... of the dramatic consequencesThe problem of this illness is that it remains silent during very long years. "The patient carrier chronic of the virus of the B hepatitis or C doesn't feel any symptom during years, or even of the score of years, until the stage of complications sometimes deadly" explains the Pr. Marcellin (Hospital Beaujon, Clichy). These complications, these are the fibrosis, the cirrhosis and the cancer of the liver. The virus of the B hepatitis is the second reason identified of death by cancer after tobacco. In France, every year, 1 000 to 1 500 people dies of the continuations of an infection in VHB. Besides, the carriers chronic of the VHB ignoring their statute present an important risk for the staff of health and the other people susceptible to be exposed to their biologic liquids (blood, sexual secretions). The tracking is therefore indispensable for people to risk. Must I be going to make a tracking?Do you have some antecedents - even old - of repeated hospitalizations, you underwent a major surgical intervention, of the exams invasifs (biopsy..) or a hospitalization for heavy care, did you make make the tattoos or piercing (especially if done in bad conditions of hygiene), have you been transfused before 1992, did you consume of the drugs, by sniff or injection, your mother bearer of the virus was at the time of your birth, your partner or is a member of your near family reached by the VHB, did you go to jail, did you make sessions of acupuncture, are you born in a region where hepatitises are frequent (Asia, Africa...)? If you answered by the affirmative even to one only of these questions, you have can be infected. It is important to be going to make a tracking. A simple blood test is sufficient. Prescribed by your physician, the test of tracking is taken in charge to 100% by the Social Security. You can also surrender in an anonymous and free tracking consultation (CDAG). It is not necessary to forget ever that earlier the infection is detected, more the hold in charge is efficient. For lack of to heal the B hepatitis, it is possible to control it, with active medicines and tolerated well. More of the two third of the infected patients see their illness consolidated thanks to the present treatments. And the new molecules under development should improve these odds of success again. Then, don't be afraid anymore to make track down you! 2009-03-04
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