Hepatitis C; a potential threat to the people of Mansehra, Pakistan

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Hepatitis C is one of the major threats to the inhabitants of this Universe, causing great socio-economic disturbances. The overall frequency of hepatitis C is more in poor and/or less developed countries as compared to developed countries. The situation becomes even more worse in remote and less developed/accessed areas like some parts of Pakistan. As such Mansehra District in Pakistan is at high risk of this deadly virus; the hepatitis C virus. The common people are unaware of having hepatitis C virus, circulating in their bodies. Therefore this book provides an insight into the situation of hepatitis C in the general population of Mansehra; never diagnosed before. As much as 3.5% of the population of Mansehra have this virus in their bodies as revealed by RT-PCR assay, mostly affecting the people in the age group 51 years and above.

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Amjad Ali PhD: MPhil and PhD degrees in Genetics. His PhD project was on Dengue virus infection and conducted his research project at Hazara University, IBGE Agricultural University Peshawar Pakistan and University of Toronto, Canada. Currently Dr. Ali is Assistant Professor at Centre for Applied Molecular Biology, University of the Punjub.

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