World Hepatitis Day has been celebrated annually on 28 July since 2008. This day was chosen as it was the birthday of Professor Baruch Blumberg who won a Nobel Prize in 1976 for his discovery of the hepatitis B virus (HBV). World Hepatitis Day is an official World Health Organisation (WHO) awareness day, one of only 4 official disease-specific world health days endorsed by WHO (the other 3 being World Tuberculosis Day, World Malaria Day and World AIDS Day). This year marks the 7th World Hepatitis Day.
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