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 hepatitis do?
Hepatitis destroys liver cells. Some kinds of hepatitis are much more serious than others. Which kind a person has can only be known from tests for antibodies in the blood.
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. This is a sign that the liver is not operating normally.
6. How can someone prevent and protect from getting Hepatitis?
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. Hepatitis A is found in which countries?
Hepatitis A is often found in Africa, Asia and Central and South America.
8. How many people have Hepatitis B?
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?
Six hundred thousand people die each year as a result of hepatitis B.
10.How effective is the 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.
11.How can someone get infected with Hepatitis B?
Blood products from an infected person can spread hepatitis B. People also can get infected if they share personal-care products that might have blood on them.
12.Who is most likely to develop a life-long infection with Hepatitis B?
Young children are the ones most likely to develop a chronic or lifelong infection.
13.How does Hepatitis C spread?
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?
The highest rates of infection are in Africa, Asia, and Central and South America.
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 recognized as a virus in 1989.
18. How many Americans have Hepatitis C?
About three million Americans have 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 Hepatitis E? When was it recognized as a separate disease?
It spreads the same way as hepatitis A -- through infectious waste. Cases often result from polluted drinking water. It was recognized as a separate disease in 1980.
21.Where has this type of Hepatitis been found? Is there a vaccine?
Hepatitis G virus has been found in Washington. There isn't a vaccine.
22.When was Hepatitis G discovered?
It discovered in nineteen nineties.
23.Can Hepatitis be cured?
Hepatitis cannot be cured.
24.What are some basic ways you can protect yourselves from Hepatitis?
You should wash your hands with soap and water after use the restroom and before prepare or eat food. Travelers should not drink water of unknown quality when visiting foreign or unknown areas. They also should avoid eating uncooked fruits and vegetables.
25.Should people with Hepatitis donate their organs? Why?They shouldn't donate their organs. Because, donated organs can also spread hepatitis.
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