Starting this Friday, July 29, until Saturday, July 30, a vaccination campaign against hepatitis will be carried out, with the slogan “Love your liver, it needs you to be healthy. Get vaccinated!”
Dr. Laura Naranjo, medical manager of GSK vaccines, explained that hepatitis is a viral disease of the liver that we can prevent through vaccination. “There are hepatitis A, B, C viruses, but only A and B can be prevented by vaccination, the symptoms can be variable, but in common there is abdominal pain, diarrhea and the characteristic thing is the yellow tint in the sight that is the bilirubin,” she detailed.
He added that it has a fairly long incubation period and is distinguished by the mode of transmission and the outcomes.
He said that hepatitis A is transmitted through the intake of contaminated food or contaminated water, while the main mechanism of transmission for hepatitis B is body fluids, sexual contact or blood transfusions. “If the mother has hepatitis B, at the time of delivery, the baby can be born with hepatitis B,” she noted.
The specialist commented that, in relation to hepatitis A, around 7 thousand deaths occur a year. The World Health Organization intends that by 2030 we can have reduced alarming figures.
