{
  "id": 871793,
  "title": "Hepatitis B: Your Barber’s Blade Could Put You At Risk",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/14/hepatitis-b-your-barbers-blade-could-put-you-at-risk",
  "topic": "health",
  "section": "Health & Medicine",
  "published": "2026-08-14T10:27:56.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "The Chronicle Ghana",
    "slug": "the-chronicle-ghana",
    "url": "https://thechronicle.com.gh/hepatitis-b-your-barbers-blade-could-put-you-at-risk/"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
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  "summary": "A seemingly harmless visit to the barber, beauty salon or tattoo centre could expose people to Hepatitis B if equipment contaminated with infected blood is reused without proper sterilisation, the Programme Manager of the National Viral Hepatitis Control Programme, Dr. John Gerald Adiiboka, has warned. Dr. Adiiboka said the virus, which is transmitted primarily through […] The post Hepatitis B:…",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
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  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}