The World Health Organization, WHO, says about 3,500 people die from the hepatitis virus every day, while the global toll continues to rise. WHO on Tuesday, called for swift action to fight the second-largest infectious killer every day. New data from 187 countries indicated that the number of deaths from viral hepatitis rose to 1.3 million in 2022 from 1.1 million in 2019, according to a WHO report released to coincide with the World Hepatitis Summit in Portugal this week. Meg Doherty, head of the WHO’s global HIV, hepatitis and sexually transmitted infection programmes, in a press conference…