How to Use hepatitis in a Sentence

hepatitis

noun
  • One fourth of the people who have hepatitis will clear the virus.
    Sean Krofssik, Hartford Courant, 10 Apr. 2024
  • His first wife died of hepatitis in her eighth month of pregnancy along with the child.
    CNN, 23 May 2022
  • The same thing happened around 2017, when a hepatitis outbreak killed more than a dozen.
    Blake Nelson, San Diego Union-Tribune, 3 Sep. 2023
  • The coronavirus would add to their battles against the flu and hepatitis, the experts said.
    Sarah Ladd, The Courier-Journal, 7 Aug. 2021
  • The police had found him in a subway station in Berlin, sick with hepatitis.
    Rachel Aviv, The New Yorker, 19 July 2021
  • The candidate is a class of drug known as a protease inhibitor, which has been long used to treat HIV and hepatitis C.
    Andrew Stuttaford, National Review, 24 Mar. 2021
  • The virus was found in some of the children diagnosed with hepatitis, the CDC has reported.
    Sarah Ladd, The Courier-Journal, 8 June 2022
  • This year, there has been one hepatitis A death in January.
    Paul Sisson, San Diego Union-Tribune, 16 May 2023
  • All types of hepatitis have been linked to liver issues.
    Amber Smith, Discover Magazine, 15 Dec. 2022
  • Could Covid-19 be behind the outbreak of child hepatitis?
    Matthew Binnicker, Forbes, 19 May 2022
  • New medicines hit the market in 2014, and annual deaths from hepatitis fell.
    Mike Stobbe, ajc, 9 Aug. 2022
  • Collins said the makers of the most popular hepatitis C drugs — AbbVie and Gilead — appear amenable to the idea.
    Nicholas Florko and Lizzy Lawrence, STAT, 7 Mar. 2023
  • Hamm had damaged veins because of lymphoma, hepatitis and past drug use, his lawyer said.
    Jay Reeves, Anchorage Daily News, 21 Nov. 2022
  • Hamm had damaged veins because of lymphoma, hepatitis, and past drug use, his lawyer said.
    Jay Reeves, BostonGlobe.com, 21 Nov. 2022
  • Moreover, all donors, whether of blood, organs or tissue, are tested for HIV and two types of hepatitis.
    Rae Ellen Bichell, USA TODAY, 27 May 2024
  • This unusual form of hepatitis could be fatal, though deaths appear to be rare so far.
    Erika Edwards, NBC News, 15 May 2022
  • The most common causes of viral hepatitis are the hepatitis A, B, and C viruses.
    Washington Post, 21 Apr. 2022
  • By the spring of 1957, McCarthy was gone for good, dead of hepatitis exacerbated by drink.
    Charles King, Foreign Affairs, 18 June 2021
  • The doctors told us not to worry, that everyone had hepatitis.
    Danjuma Adda, STAT, 16 June 2024
  • Currently, all donors, whether of blood, organs, or tissue, are tested for HIV and two types of hepatitis.
    Tribune News Service, The Mercury News, 30 May 2024
  • The increase in cases of hepatitis in children is a global issue.
    CBS News, 6 Dec. 2022
  • In control groups—made up of children who did not have acute hepatitis—AAV2 was either absent or present in very low levels.
    Chloe Taylor, Fortune, 26 July 2022
  • There are a few types of hepatitis—A, B, and C probably being the most recognized—and each one is different.
    Ashley Abramson, Health.com, 22 Nov. 2021
  • Severe hepatitis in children remains rare, the CDC stressed.
    John Bacon, USA TODAY, 22 May 2022
  • Flu, dehydration and hepatitis are among some of the main consequences of the water crisis in Gaza, according to MSF staff on the ground.
    Dragana Jovanovic, ABC News, 11 Apr. 2024
  • In three cases, the hepatitis grew so severe that the children suffered from liver failure.
    Jeffrey Kluger, Time, 5 May 2022
  • Since your liver plays a major role in processing bilirubin, the hepatitis can lead to jaundice and yellowing of your skin and eyes.
    Bruce Y. Lee, Forbes, 1 Apr. 2023
  • Covid-19—although not detected in many of the cases around the time of the severe hepatitis—is also a possible culprit.
    Denise Roland, WSJ, 20 May 2022
  • They are only rarely reported as a cause of severe hepatitis in healthy people.
    Brenda Goodman, CNN, 27 Apr. 2022
  • Around three-quarters of the children identified with hepatitis in the U.K. tested positive for this virus.
    Denise Roland, WSJ, 20 May 2022

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