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Joselynn Armstrong developed severe illness after conjunctivitis, leading to ICU care and identification of H5N1 bird flu as the first Canadian human case.
The World Health Organization estimates that one of three people worldwide has been infected by acute hepatitis B. The likelihood of developing chronic hepatitis B is higher for the young - the risk is 90 percent for babies with the bloodborne disease. When untreated, the virus progresses into liver cancer 25% of the time, killing one of four. Although hepatitis B is both preventable with vaccines and treatable with oral medication, the virus continues to spread 60 years after its discovery.