One in every seven Filipinos is afflicted with hepatitis B, the most common liver infection in the country, with 67 percent of those with the disease developing liver cancer, a specialist said in a recent online forum. In the Philippines, hepatitis B is considered “hyperendemic,” meaning most anyone not vaccinated against it is susceptible to the disease, said a recent news report. This is alarming news, according to Dr. Wendell Espinosa, vice president of the Hepatology Society
As 2022 closed, after three pandemic years, the people getting better off have finally outnumbered those getting worse off. In the SWS December 2022 survey, there were 34 percent of Filipino adults saying their quality of life (uri ng pamumuhay) improved in the past 12 months; this was 8 points more than the 26 percent saying it had worsened (“Fourth Quarter 2022 Social Weather Survey: Gainers minus Losers at +8,” www.sws.org.ph, 1/25/2023). Together, the gainers and the losers were 60 percent of the national total of adults. The balance consisted of 39 percent, whose QOL was the same as a year
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