5-Years Prevalence Study of HBV and HCV infections in Babylon Province: Forensic Helping Data

Abstract

HBV and HCV infections are serious global health care problem because they may end with chronic
hepatitis, cirrhosis, and hepatocellular carcinoma. HBV infection results in approximately 2 billion human
infections while HCV approximately 160 million individuals. Raw database were collected from General
health department at Babylon Health directorate for 715505 investigated person during a period from Jan.
2015 to Dec. 2019. Blood samples was drawn in Gel tube from suspects and centrifuged to separate the
serum. Serum submitted for investigation of HbsAg and HCV Ab by both rapid immunochromatographic
test and ELISA test. Actually the database taken from Babylon Health directorate and the results analysis
depends upon dividing of data records from four health sectors, blood bank record lab, health care checking
lab, pre-surgery checking, Marriage lab, thalassemia lab, Hemodialysis lab Prisoner and foreigners lab. The
results revealed that , total positive cases were 4284 and 2260 for “HBV and HCV” respectively. The highest
no. of cases for both “HBV and HCV” were recorded in 2018 (976 and 467) and (961 and 557) for “HBV
and HCV” respectively. The incidence rate of “HBV and HCV” were varies worldwide. The results revealed
that the occurrence rate (Mean ± SD) of “HBV” was (0.627±0.134) while for HCV was (0.327±0.084). The
results revealed that, there is no defined month or semester for high rate infections. The high prevalence
percentage were showed for prisoner-foreigner category (48.53 and 45.95 for HBV and HCV respectively)
followed by surgery (22.66 and 19.03 for HBV and HCV respectively), blood bank (14.03 and 13.95 for
HBV and HCV respectively) and in married (7.79 and 3.92 for HBV and HCV respectively. The current study
conclude the high prevalence percentage of HBV (duplicate) than HCV with no seasonality of occurrence
and the Prisoners and foreigners, Surgery, blood donor and hemodialysis were mostly involved with HBV
and HCV infection.