How to Use hepatitis in a Sentence

hepatitis

noun
  • One fourth of the people who have hepatitis will clear the virus.
    — Sean Krofssik, Hartford Courant, 10 Apr. 2024
  • His first wife died of hepatitis in her eighth month of pregnancy along with the child.
    — CNN, 23 May 2022
  • Vaccines are available for some types of hepatitis but not all.
    — Shari Rudavsky, Indianapolis Star, 15 June 2018
  • Rather, he had been forced to leave the Marines because of a case of hepatitis.
    — Olivia B. Waxman, Time, 15 Sep. 2017
  • Hamm had damaged veins because of lymphoma, hepatitis and past drug use, his lawyer said.
    — Jay Reeves, Anchorage Daily News, 21 Nov. 2022
  • Hamm had damaged veins because of lymphoma, hepatitis, and past drug use, his lawyer said.
    — Jay Reeves, BostonGlobe.com, 21 Nov. 2022
  • Hamm had damaged veins because of lymphoma, hepatitis and drug use.
    — NBC News, 2 Oct. 2019
  • This unusual form of hepatitis could be fatal, though deaths appear to be rare so far.
    — Erika Edwards, NBC News, 15 May 2022
  • As the use of dietary or herbal supplements grows, so have rates of toxic hepatitis.
    — Elizabeth Robinson, NBC news, 28 May 2025
  • His youngest brother died of alcoholic hepatitis, and he is headed down the same path.
    — cleveland.com, 27 July 2019
  • The police had found him in a subway station in Berlin, sick with hepatitis.
    — Rachel Aviv, The New Yorker, 19 July 2021
  • The coronavirus would add to their battles against the flu and hepatitis, the experts said.
    — Sarah Ladd, The Courier-Journal, 7 Aug. 2021
  • Gilead is known chiefly for its HIV and hepatitis treatments.
    — Stephen Gandel, CBS News, 10 Aug. 2020
  • Most contentious was the question of when to give hepatitis B vaccines.
    — Elizabeth Cooney, STAT, 25 Feb. 2026
  • After an acute hepatitis B infection, many adults clear the virus.
    — Katherine Dillinger, CNN Money, 17 Dec. 2025
  • After an acute hepatitis B infection, many adults clear the virus.
    — Brenda Goodman, CNN Money, 6 Dec. 2025
  • After an acute hepatitis B infection, many adults clear the virus.
    — Deidre McPhillips, CNN Money, 4 Dec. 2025
  • The doctors told us not to worry, that everyone had hepatitis.
    — Danjuma Adda, STAT, 16 June 2024
  • The same thing happened around 2017, when a hepatitis outbreak killed more than a dozen.
    — Blake Nelson, San Diego Union-Tribune, 3 Sep. 2023
  • In the context of the hepatitis scourge that ravaged people living on the street, things have improved.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 21 Aug. 2019
  • Will newborns still get hepatitis B vaccines?
    — Brenda Goodman, CNN Money, 18 Sep. 2025
  • For the last 30 years, newborns were given the first of two hepatitis B vaccines at birth.
    — Cara Lynn Shultz, PEOPLE, 11 Dec. 2025
  • The girl who put a syringe in her mouth was not poked but had to be tested for hepatitis B and C, her mother said.
    — Bloomberg.com, 17 July 2017
  • New medicines hit the market in 2014, and annual deaths from hepatitis fell.
    — Mike Stobbe, ajc, 9 Aug. 2022
  • Research has found that this is most commonly the case with HIV and hepatitis.
    — Amanda Chatel, Glamour, 18 May 2019
  • But as Kamischke knows first-hand, a hepatitis B infection can happen at any time.
    — Cara Lynn Shultz, PEOPLE, 11 Dec. 2025
  • The blood is also screened to make sure there are no other viruses, such as HIV or hepatitis.
    — Amy Dockser Marcus, WSJ, 1 Apr. 2020
  • Those who travel may also want to ask about hepatitis A vaccination.
    — Rachel Brown Kirkland, AJC.com, 21 Apr. 2026
  • Cases of diarrhea and hepatitis have also spiked.
    — Nora Gámez Torres, Miami Herald, 27 Oct. 2025
  • Less than a decade ago, high prices similarly slowed the uptake of hepatitis C antivirals.
    — Michael Rose, STAT, 3 Apr. 2026

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