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
  • Last year, there was a hepatitis-A outbreak in San Diego.
    Barnini Chakraborty, Fox News, 20 Aug. 2019
  • 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
  • Gilead is known chiefly for its HIV and hepatitis treatments.
    Stephen Gandel, CBS News, 10 Aug. 2020
  • The police had found him in a subway station in Berlin, sick with hepatitis.
    Rachel Aviv, The New Yorker, 19 July 2021
  • In the context of the hepatitis scourge that ravaged people living on the street, things have improved.
    San Diego Union-Tribune, 21 Aug. 2019
  • 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
  • Research has found that this is most commonly the case with HIV and hepatitis.
    Amanda Chatel, Glamour, 18 May 2019
  • The virus was found in some of the children diagnosed with hepatitis, the CDC has reported.
    Sarah Ladd, The Courier-Journal, 8 June 2022
  • The blood is also screened to make sure there are no other viruses, such as HIV or hepatitis.
    Amy Dockser Marcus, WSJ, 1 Apr. 2020
  • 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
  • Vaccines are available for some types of hepatitis but not all.
    Shari Rudavsky, Indianapolis Star, 15 June 2018
  • 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
  • His youngest brother died of alcoholic hepatitis, and he is headed down the same path.
    cleveland.com, 27 July 2019
  • 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
  • There will also be 12 new public-health nurse jobs and $1.6 million to fight hepatitis A.
    City News Service, Ramona Sentinel, 27 June 2018
  • 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
  • Until a few years ago, there weren't really good options to treat hepatitis C. Now, there are drugs with high cure rates, Potluri said.
    Jen Christensen, CNN, 12 Sep. 2019
  • This unusual form of hepatitis could be fatal, though deaths appear to be rare so far.
    Erika Edwards, NBC News, 15 May 2022
  • Hamm had damaged veins because of lymphoma, hepatitis and drug use.
    NBC News, 2 Oct. 2019
  • 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
  • But now obesity accounts for a third of liver cancer deaths, and is more of a factor than hepatitis, Siegel said.
    Mike Stobbe, The Seattle Times, 8 Jan. 2019

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