Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site psivax.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!bonnie!akgua!sdcsvax!sdcrdcf!psivax!friesen From: friesen@psivax.UUCP (Stanley Friesen) Newsgroups: net.med Subject: Re: Non-A Non-B Hepatitis ???? (New Discoveries) Message-ID: <233@psivax.UUCP> Date: Mon, 14-Jan-85 12:31:38 EST Article-I.D.: psivax.233 Posted: Mon Jan 14 12:31:38 1985 Date-Received: Thu, 17-Jan-85 13:17:37 EST References: <156@sask.UUCP> <1093@aecom.UUCP> Reply-To: friesen@psivax.UUCP (Stanley friesen) Organization: Pacesetter Systems Inc., Sylmar, CA Lines: 24 Summary: In article <1093@aecom.UUCP> werner@aecom.UUCP (Craig Werner) writes: >> Has anyone out there got info on non-a non-b hepatitis? E.G. comparing this >> hepatitis relative to hepatitis-A. Better yet. Are there databases out >> there that one can get this type of info from? > > Glad this came up. I was going to post the following eventually >anyway, but now it seems relevant. > Non-A non-B Hepatitis is a generic name for any type of hepatitis >that can not be linked to either one of the two known viruses (i.e. A or B) >It is currently the most common form of hepatitis world-wide and there have >been no advances towards a vaccine in the absence of a known cause, although a >third virus was detected. > > I have my own small addition, I tested positive for "hepatitis" last summer, but negative for A/B. I eventually discovered I had mononucleosis. Thus non-A/B hepatitis can also be a secondary symptom of some other disease. -- Sarima (Stanley Friesen) {trwrb|allegra|burdvax|cbosgd|hplabs|ihnp4|sdcsvax}!sdcrdcf!psivax!friesen