Which one of the following statements is not correct?
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Answer: B. Statement B is not correct: Hepatitis B does have a safe, effective vaccine (included in India's Universal Immunisation Programme), while Hepatitis C does not. The other statements are true.
Watch for: The statement reverses which hepatitis has a vaccine; students who remember 'one has a vaccine' may not know which.
Why the other options are wrong
- A. Wrong because Hepatitis B does spread through blood, sex and mother to child, like HIV, so the statement is correct.
- C. Wrong because far more people (around 325 million) have Hepatitis B or C than HIV (about 37 million), so the statement is correct.
- D. Wrong because many people with Hepatitis B or C have no symptoms for years, so the statement is correct.
Source to check: WHO Global Hepatitis Report 2017; Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, National Viral Hepatitis Control Programme and Universal Immunisation Programme
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