THE outbreak of hepatitis A in Depok near Jakarta (Sunday Star, Dec 1) has alerted me of this Cinderella hepatitis. Hepatitis B is well known to Malaysians while hepatitis C is newsworthy because of the tremendous advances achieved in its treatment.
However, hepatitis A is often confused with hepatitis B, as is clearly shown whenever a hepatitis B carrier asks his doctor what he can’t eat or when his well-meaning friends advise him to discard the clams from his char koay teow.
