Recently, my brother’s eyes turned yellow and he had mild fever. He was quite ill and we took him to the doctor. The doctor told us he had hepatitis. I'm told this is quite common in our country. What is hepatitis?
The term hepatitis actually means inflammation of the liver. Hepatitis itself is a general term for inflammation of the liver, which can be caused by different agents, such as viruses, alcohol, chemicals and autoimmune diseases. Here, I am only going to talk about viral hepatitis.
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