B.What can you do to reduce the Risk of getting hepatisis
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. It also helps break down food and store energy until the body needs it.
3.What does hepatisis 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 hepatisis A spread? What are the symptoms if someone has hepatisis?
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 project from getting hepatisis?
To help prevent the spread of hepatitis A, people should wash their hands after they use the restroom or change a baby's diaper. People should also wash their hands before they eat or prepare food.
7.Hepatisis A is found in which countries?
Hepatitis A is often found in Africa, Asia and Central and South America.
8.How many people have Hepatisis B?
Two billion people are infected with the hepatitis B virus.
9.How many people die each year from Hepatisis B.?
WHO officials say an estimated six hundred thousand people die each year as a result of hepatitis.
10.How affective is the hepatisis B ?
The vaccine is ninety-five percent effective in preventing the development of infection
11.How can someone get infected with Hepatisis 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 Hepatisis B?
Young children are the ones most likely to develop a chronic or lifelong infection
13.How does Hepatisis C spread?
It spreads when blood from an infected person enters someone who is not infected.
14.About how many people have hepatisis C?
About one hundred seventy million people are infected with hepatitis C.
15.Where are the highest rates of infection?
The highest rates of infection are in Africa, Asia, and Central and South America.
16.When was the highest rates of infection?
The hepatitis C virus was first observed in nineteen seventy-four.
17.When was it recognized as a virus?
It recognized was nineteen eighty-nine.
18.How many american 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, but only infects people who already have hepatitis B.Doctors say the best way to prevent hepatitis D is to get vaccine that protects against hepatitis B.
20.How do you get hepatisis E? When was it recognized as a seperate disease?
Experts say it spreads the same way as hepatitis A -- through infectious waste. Cases often result from polluted drinking water. Medical science recognized hepatitis E as a separate disease in nineteen eighty.
21.Where has this type of hepatisis 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 hepatisis G discovered?
It discovered in the nineteen nineties.
23.Can hepatisis be cured.?
No, it cant.
24.What are some basic ways you can protect yourselves from hepatisis?
. The only way to protect against infection is to receive vaccines against hepatitis A and B, and to avoid contact with the other viruses.Some kinds of hepatitis spread through sex or sharing needles. Blood products should be carefully tested for hepatitis.
25.Should people with hepatisis donate their organ.? Why?
People in high-risk groups and those who have had hepatitis should not give blood. They also should not agree to leave their organs to others after they die. Donated organs can also spread hepatitis.
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