{"id":226160,"date":"2025-11-29T21:08:12","date_gmt":"2025-11-30T03:08:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/11\/hepatitis-d-virus-classified-as-carcinogenic-implications"},"modified":"2025-11-29T21:08:12","modified_gmt":"2025-11-30T03:08:12","slug":"hepatitis-d-virus-classified-as-carcinogenic-implications","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/11\/hepatitis-d-virus-classified-as-carcinogenic-implications","title":{"rendered":"Hepatitis D Virus Classified as Carcinogenic: Implications"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/hepatitis-d-virus-classified-as-carcinogenic-implications2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) of the World Health Organization has classified hepatitis D virus (HDV) as carcinogenic, citing sufficient evidence and placing it alongside hepatitis B virus (HBV) and hepatitis C virus (HCV) as a cause of hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC).<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>WHO\u2019s classification of hepatitis D virus as carcinogenic raises urgent questions for vaccination, screening, and treatment strategies worldwide.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) of the World Health Organization has classified hepatitis D virus (HDV) as carcinogenic, citing sufficient evidence and placing it alongside hepatitis B virus (HBV) and hepatitis C virus (HCV) as a cause of hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC). WHO\u2019s classification of hepatitis D virus as carcinogenic raises urgent questions [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-226160","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226160","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=226160"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226160\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=226160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=226160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=226160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}