what you should know
October is Hepatitis Awareness Month, and how it was established decades ago to draw national attention to the health crisis of hepatitis infection.
This month recognizes the dedication and commitment of scientists, including Nobel Prize winner Michael Horton and his team of researchers who discovered hepatitis C in 1989. It highlights the collaborative efforts of scientists, health care providers and volunteers in the fight against hepatitis.
This month also highlights the importance of addressing “hesitancy” among at-risk populations and providing easy-to-understand liver health information to children, government agencies and the military.
October is a time to celebrate Hepatitis Awareness Month established decades ago to call national attention to the health crisis of hepatitis infection. At the time, solutions to the medical crisis were elusive because of the presence of multiple “unidentified hepatitis viruses,” including one known as non-A non-B hepatitis.
This is also a time to express our sincere gratitude and praise for the dedication and commitment of the scientists who have made groundbreaking discoveries that energize this fight. After decades of searching for answers, Nobel Prize winner Dr. Michael Horton and his dedicated team of researchers discovered hepatitis C in 1989. Horton and the thousands of scientists, doctors, health care providers and millions of concerned volunteers make it worth celebrating on this anniversary.
Let’s celebrate this Hepatitis Awareness Month by adding liver education to our life-saving efforts so that millions of unsuspecting people can learn how to protect their livers and their lives. In addition to promoting the campaign to eliminate viral hepatitis, this awareness campaign calls attention to the urgent need for a national liver education campaign that will address “hesitancy” among people at high risk of infection and include understandable, relevant and memorable Content provides information for all school children, government agencies and the military.
There is also an urgent need to provide uninformed teachers, professors, counselors, and parents with easily shareable, understandable information and teaching tools to motivate patients, children, and adults to adopt healthy eating habits and lifestyles to protect their livers.
Unfortunately, information about the liver describing why and how it protects the life inside by creating and supporting liver cells has been missing from schools for decades, a fact that is currently due to a lack of understanding of how the hepatitis virus attacks and destroys Ignorance of the capabilities of liver cells is the source of tragic consequences. The many miracles that create and sustain hundreds of vital life-supporting body parts and functions that we take for granted.
This ongoing problem, in addition to many other potentially preventable liver-related diseases, urgently requires an effective national liver education campaign.
The Liver Health Initiative’s website has a variety of age-appropriate teaching tools to help you in your efforts to eliminate viral hepatitis.