Public Health

Hepatitis B virus (HBV) is hardy and easier to "catch" than you might realize. HBV is found mainly in blood and body fluids. In certain situations, it is up to 100 times more contagious than HIV, the virus that causes AIDS. Hepatitis B virus can survive for up to 1 month in some instances increasing your chances of infection. There are an estimated 1 to 1.25 million persons with chronic HBV infection in the United States that are infectious to others.

It can make you very sick

Hepatitis B attacks your liver and can make you extremely ill. Some patients even require hospitalization. The disease can lead to cirrhosis of the liver or liver cancer. Each year there are 240,000 new infections with hepatitis B and 6,000 people die due to hepatitis B-related chronic liver disease in the United States.

It can be prevented

Hepatitis B, the most serious, is vaccine preventable.

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