“Over the past 15 years, the incidence of acute hepatitis B has decreased by 16 times. We are one of the leaders in the best sense of the word in the world for a very low incidence of acute hepatitis B, ”she said.
In November, it became known that Rospotrebnazdor developed new approaches for the treatment of chronic hepatitis B. They can completely cure the disease without affecting the human genome.
According to the Ministry of Health, the first place in the number of cases of viral hepatitis is in the Chukotka Autonomous Region, where at the end of 2018, the incidence rate amounted to 3546.2 cases per 100 thousand population.