What We Know About The Silent Spreaders Of Hepatitis B? - YouTube

Re-using contaminated needles and syringes. Uncleanly Blood transfusions. Unprotected sexual contact. Direct transmission from mother to child during childbirth. The dominant mode of transmission depends largely on the prevalence of the disease in a given area. For example, if areas such as North America drug abuse and unprotected sex are the primary mode of infection. Whereas in areas such as such as China where Hepatitis B is very prevalent, the vertical transmission (mother to child) is the most common. A mother who is positive for the Hepatitis B surface virus has a 20% risk of passing the infection to her offspring during birth. That percentage can rise to as high as 90% if the mother is also infected with the hepatitis B e antigen. The older a person is at the time of infection, the greater the risk that their body will not clear the infection. Hepatitis B infection can lead to a permanent inflammation of the liver, the result of this inflammation leads cirrhosis. These affects largely in