1. Where is the liver?
The liver is in the upper right part of the stomach.
2. What is its job?
The liver helps clean the blood and fight infection.
3. What does hepatitis do?
Hepatitis destroys liver cells
4. What are antibodies?
Antibodies are special proteins that the body's natural defenses against disease produce in answer to a threat.
5. How is Hepatitis A spread? What are the symptoms if someone has hepatitis?
Hepatitis A is usually spread through human waste in water or food. The hepatitis A virus causes high body temperature, pain and weakness. It causes problems with the stomach and intestines, making it difficult to eat or break down food. Also, the skin of a person with hepatitis may become yellow
6. How can someone prevent and protect from getting Hepatitis?
People should also wash their hands before they eat or prepare food.
7. Hepatitis A is found in which countries?
The World Health Organization says hepatitis A is often found in Africa, Asia and Central and South America. People who have had hepatitis A cannot get it again. There is a vaccine to prevent hepatitis
8. How many people have Hepatitis B?
The World Health Organization says as many as two billion people are infected with the hepatitis B virus. More than three hundred fifty million of those infected have lifelong infections.
9. How many people die each year from Hepatitis B?
WHO officials say an estimated six hundred thousand people die each year as a result of hepatitis B.
10. How affective is the Hepatitis B?
The WHO says the vaccine is ninety five percent affective in preventing the development of infection.
11. How can someone get infected with Hepatitis B?
Hepatitis B spreads when blood from an infected person enters the body of another person. An infected mother can infect her baby. The virus can also spread through sexual activity, and if people share injection devices.
12. Who is most likely to develop a life-long infection with Hepatitis B?
Worldwide, most hepatitis B infections are found in children. Young children are the ones most likely to develop a chronic or lifelong infection. The risk of such an infection is small for children older than four years.
13. How does Hepatitis C spread?
Like hepatitis B, it spreads when blood from an infected person enters someone who is not infected.
14. About how many people have Hepatitis C?
The World Health Organization says about one hundred seventy million people are infected with hepatitis C
15. Where are the highest rates of infection?
That is three percent of the population of the world! The WHO.
16. When was the virus first observed?
The hepatitis C virus was first observed in nineteen seventy-four.
17. When was it recognized as a virus?
It was not officially recognized as a new kind of hepatitis until nineteen eighty-nine.
18. How many Americans have Hepatitis C?
Three million Americans are infected with hepatitis C.
19. How do you get Hepatitis D? What’s the best way to prevent it?
Hepatitis D is spread through blood.Doctors say the best way to prevent hepatitis D is to get vaccine that protects against hepatitis B.
20. How do you get Hepatitis E? When was it recognized as a separate disease?
. Experts say it spreads the same way as hepatitis A. Medical science recognized hepatitis E as a separate disease in nineteen eighty
21. Where has this type of Hepatitis been found? Is there a vaccine?
The WHO says many hepatitis E cases have been reported in Central and Southeast Asia, North and West Africa and Mexico. No vaccines or medicines are effective against hepatitis E.
22. When was Hepatitis G discovered?
It discovered in the nineteen nineties.
23. Can Hepatitis be cured?
Hepatitis cannot be cured. The only way to protect against infection is to receive vaccines against hepatitis A and B, and to avoid contact with the other viruses. And that may be difficult.
24. What are some basic ways you can protect yourselves from Hepatitis?
Washing hands, use yourselves equipment.
25. Should people with Hepatitis donate their organs? Why?
They also should not agree to leave their organs to others after they die. Donated organs can also spread hepatitis.
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