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Ep 89 Hepatitis B: Hepatiti, Take 2

This Podcast Will Kill You

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Hepotitis B Virus

Bloombrig and his team began getting suspicious that it might not be a human protein after all, but rather an infectious agent. But as more data came in, that assumption kind of broke down. And then the connection to hepotitus b fell into place when they began to find the antigen at high rates in people who had hepotitus. Post transfusion, hepotitus rates reached 30%. The beginnings of the incredible prevalence of global hepotitus that we have to day really does have its roots during this time.

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