Hepatitis B
What is Hepatitis B?
Hepatitis B is an infectious illness effect by hepatitis B virus. Hepatitis B is a potentially life-ominous liver infection caused by the hepatitis B virus. Hepatitis B is a major global health problem and the most dangerous type of viral hepatitis. Hepatitis B can cause chronic liver disease and puts somebody at high risk of death from cirrhosis of the liver and liver cancer.
Symptoms
Hepatitis B virus can stimulate an acute illness with symptoms that last various weeks, consider yellowing of the skin and eyes (jaundice), dark urine, extreme fatigue, nausea, vomiting and abdominal pain. Somebody can take various months to a year to recover from the symptoms. Hepatitis B virus can also cause a chronic liver infection that can later grow into cirrhosis of the liver or liver cancer.
Transmission
Hepatitis B virus is transmitted between people by contact with the blood or another body substance of an infected person. Common modes of transmission are Given Below ;
Perinatal
Early childhood infections
Unsafe injections practices
Blood transfusions
Sexual contact
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