Hepatitis B Virus

Study agrues that hepatitis B accounts for 40% of "missing" Asian women

Published in Hepatitis Weekly, November 28th, 2005

In a groundbreaking, and likely controversial, new study, Emily Oster (a graduate student in economics at Harvard University) argues that excess female mortality, such as resulting from infanticide, may not be the only cause of uncommonly high male to female ratios in many Asian countries.

It has long been observed that the relative number of males is higher in certain Asian countries than in the West, where it is close to equal. A number of authors have suggested that this imbalance reflects neglect of female children and poor conditions for women and, as a result, have argued that as many as 100 million women are "missing."

However, in the...

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Source: Hepatitis Weekly (2005-11-28)

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