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Dletmedown posted:
Did You Know? May 26, '10 3:10 PM
by Drsletmedown: for everyone

Approximately 500 million people worldwide are infected with hepatitis B or C;

This is over 10 times the number infected with HIV/AIDS;

Between them, hepatitis B and C kill one million people a year;

One in every three people on the planet has been exposed to either or both viruses;

Most of the 500 million infected do not know.

HELLO WORLD ARE YOU LISTENING ?? DOES ANYONE
CARE ?? WE ALL NEED TO POST THESE STATS EVERYWHERE
& SEND THEM TO EVERY NEWS MEDIA & POLITICIAN YOU CAN


Taken from: http://www.hivandhepatitis.com/2010_conference/easl/docs/0420_2010_a.html

This is ( NOT ) acceptable this is 2010 & we are going NO WHERE when it comes to getting this disease the MONEY it needs for more research. Drsletmedown.
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