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What is hepatitis B?

Hepatitis is a Latin word for liver inflammation. Hepatitis type B is caused by a virus called hepatitis B. Other types of infectious liver inflammation include hepatitis A and hepatitis C.

How is hepatitis B?

The virus of hepatitis type B can be spread in the following ways:

- Contact with the blood of an infected person, transfusion of blood or infected blood products, contaminated needles by drug users or contaminated instruments for tattooing, acupuncture or to become “piercing.”

- By having sex with an infected person.

- From infected mother to child during birth.- Type B hepatitis is highly contagious and in rare cases can spread to other family members without any sexual contact or infected blood. In these cases the virus is probably through toothbrushes.

- The virus can also infect people, mostly health care workers who accidentally pricked with a contaminated needle.

Hepatitis type B frequently affects drug users, immigrants from Asian countries, especially Southeast Asia, where the hepatitis is very common, and their sexual partners.

credit to: Dr. José María Ladero Quesada, Dr. Court Pedersen, Dr. Ove Schaffalitzky de Muckadell

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