THE Hepatitis B and C virus is becoming more and more common in this region.
Dr Chia Kok Hoong, a senior consultant surgeon at Mount Elizabeth Medical Centre in Singapore, said that Hepatitis B especially was endemic in this part of the world and this pushed up the chances of being infected.
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