July 28 is World Hepatitis Day. It s World Hepatitis Day and it is time we woke up to the fact the hepatitis is as much a danger as HIV. According to Dr Samir Shah renowned hepatologist and the founder member and general secretary of the National Liver Foundation Hepatitis is a largely overlooked disease we need to create awareness among people to make them understand that it is as important to weed out hepatitis from the country as it was to wipe out polio or to spread awareness about HIV. Here are a few things you might not know