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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
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Posted: Mon Jan 14 12:31:38 1985
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References: <156@sask.UUCP> <1093@aecom.UUCP>
Reply-To: friesen@psivax.UUCP (Stanley friesen)
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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)

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