History and Epidemiology Hepatitis

Jaundice have been known since thousands years ago, namely in the centuries before Christ V (5 BC), in Babilonia. Hippocrates, an ancient Greek physician, found that the jaundice is contagious, so he calls it icterus infectiosa.

This disease has resulted in the occurrence of falls among some military franco-prussian war in 1870. Had also occurred in the Korean War of 1952 also Middle East War of 1956 and the year 1958. When wars occur, the jaundice infecting among soldiers and civilians.

In the year 1926, reported the epidemic already, or the spread of hepatitis virus in diabetics due to the sharing of contaminated injection equipment. In 1940 an epidemic hepatitis virus already had in Brazil. In 1984, hepatitis virus for the first time recognized by the New York State Workmen Compensatoir Bureau as a disease.