October 5th, 2025 - 07:28 GMT
The research department at Biolab Diagnostic Laboratories, led by Dr. Issa Abu-Dayyeh, and the Infectious Disease Epidemiology Group at Weill Cornell Medicine-Qatar (WCM-Q), led by Professor Laith Abu-Raddad, have jointly published a landmark study on hepatitis B virus (HBV) in Jordan. The study provides the most comprehensive assessment to date of HBV in the country, highlighting both the scale of the challenge and the significant progress achieved through vaccination. Hepatitis B is a viral infection that attacks the liver and can cause cirrhosis and liver cancer. As of 2022, an ...