{"id":2865,"date":"2015-07-28T17:03:23","date_gmt":"2015-07-28T20:03:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nchstats.com\/?p=2865"},"modified":"2015-07-28T17:03:23","modified_gmt":"2015-07-28T20:03:23","slug":"world-hepatitis-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/2015\/07\/28\/2865\/","title":{"rendered":"World Hepatitis Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/hepatitis\/worldhepday.htm\">World Hepatitis Day<\/a>. \u00a0Viral hepatitis is a disease of major public health significance in the United States with\u00a0over <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/nchs\/data\/nvsr\/nvsr64\/nvsr64_02.pdf\">8,000 deaths<\/a>\u00a0in 2013. Most infections were caused by three viruses, hepatitis A virus (HAV), hepatitis B virus (HBV), and hepatitis C virus (HCV)<\/p>\n<p>The number of new cases of HAV\u00a0has declined significantly from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/nchs\/data\/hus\/hus14.pdf#037\">56,797 in 1970 to 1,562 in 2012<\/a>. \u00a0The number of new cases of HBV has also dropped from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/nchs\/data\/hus\/hus14.pdf#037\">8,310 in 1970 to 1,562 in 2012<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>HBV\u00a0infection among persons aged 6-19 has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/nchs\/data\/databriefs\/db27.htm\">decreased<\/a> in recent years. By 2003-2006, over 90% of children had received at least one dose of the recommended three-dose series of hepatitis B vaccine.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For more information:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/nchs\/fastats\/hepatitis.htm\">http:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/nchs\/fastats\/hepatitis.htm<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today is World Hepatitis Day. \u00a0Viral hepatitis is a disease of major public health significance in the United States with\u00a0over 8,000 deaths\u00a0in 2013. Most infections were caused by three viruses, hepatitis A virus (HAV), hepatitis B virus (HBV), and hepatitis C virus (HCV) The number of new cases of HAV\u00a0has declined significantly from 56,797 in<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":195,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2865"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/195"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2865"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2865\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2865"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2865"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2865"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}