HEPATITIS B DEFINITION

• A serious liver infection caused by hepatitis B that's easily preventable by a vaccine

HEPATITIS B

• Is a Liver infection caused by HBV infection.
• Is transmitted when blood, semen, or another bodily fluid from an person infected with Hepatitis B virus that enters a body of someone who is not infected. This can also be transmitted through childbirth from mother to child.
• This infection can be contagious from 30 days all the way up to 180 days.

HEPATITIS B

• This can be transmitted through sexual contact, sharing needles, or other drug-injection equipment.
• You can take vaccines to help prevent Hepatitis B
• In rare cases of HBV, the patient would need surgery to get rid of HBV.

HEPATITIS B

• Can be acquired at child birth
• It's the presence of HIV (AIDS) virus
• Hepatitis B can cross through the mucous membrane and skin barrier.
• Doorknobs, faucets handles, and open wounds can transmit this disease, (very contagious)

HEPATITIS B

• Early symptoms: low grade fever, tenderness in the upper right abdomen, sore joints and muscles, and nausea, vomiting and diarrhea.
• Later symptoms include darkened urine, abnormally yellow skin

SITES WE USED

• http://www.cdc.gov/hepatitis/hbv/
• http://hivinsite.ucsf.edu/insite?page=md-rr-27
• http://www.hepb.org/pdf/treatment.pdf

BY: DAVID PFEIFER AND BERNARD PASALIC