Far too few hepatitis cases are diagnosed and treated worldwide, with the number of people who died from the viral disease rising from 1.1 million in 2019 to 1.3 million in 2022, the World Health Organization (WHO) said in Geneva on Tuesday. As many as 83% of deaths were due to hepatitis B and 17% to hepatitis C, the WHO said. There are five different types of hepatitis caused by different viruses, from A to E. Hepatitis B and C, which are among the main causes of liver cirrhosis and liver cancer and to which the WHO report mainly refers, are particularly dangerous. The WHO recorded a slight d…