Hepatitis– Know It to Confront It

Word liverderived from heparor hepatwhich is a Greek word, a lifeline, indeed, relentlessly round the clock involved in from metabolism to digestion via aiding emulsification of lipid, synthesis of plasma protein to glycogen storage & also synthesis of bile & hormones to detoxification, to keep us hale and hearty. But,at times due to multiple factors like infection, drug, ischaemic, alcohol, drugs, metabolic etc,cause inflammation in liver,[hepat(ἡπατ-), meaning liver, and suffix-itis, meaning "inflammation" (c. 1727).]A group of viruses known as the hepatitis viruses cause most cases of hepatitis worldwide and the role, impact, epidemiology and prevention of this VIRUS induced HEPATITIS will be discussed in this article.