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* Young children in day-care or residential settings with other children in endemic areas | * Young children in day-care or residential settings with other children in endemic areas | ||
* Sexual/household contacts of infected persons | * Sexual/household contacts of infected persons | ||
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* People sharing unsterile medical or dental equipment | |||
* People providing or receiving acupuncture and/or tattooing with unsterile medical devices | |||
* Persons living in regions or travelling to regions with endemic hepatitis B | |||
*Inject drugs | *Inject drugs | ||
*Are a man who has sex with men | *Are a man who has sex with men | ||
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Editor-In-Chief: C. Michael Gibson, M.S., M.D. [1]; Associate Editor(s)-in-Chief: João André Alves Silva, M.D. [2]
Overview
Risk Factors
Individuals who are at increased risk of hepatitis B infection include:
- Infants born to infected mothers
- Young children in day-care or residential settings with other children in endemic areas
- Sexual/household contacts of infected persons
- Patients and employees in haemodialysis centres
- Injection drug users sharing unsterile needles
- People sharing unsterile medical or dental equipment
- People providing or receiving acupuncture and/or tattooing with unsterile medical devices
- Persons living in regions or travelling to regions with endemic hepatitis B
- Inject drugs
- Are a man who has sex with men
- Live in the same house with someone who has chronic (long-term) HBV infection
- Have a job that involves contact with human blood
- Are a client in a home for the developmentally disabled
- Have hemophilia
- Travel to areas where hepatitis B is common (country listing)
One out of 20 people in the United States will get infected with HBV some time during their lives.
Their risk is higher if their parents were born in Southeast Asia, Africa, the Amazon basin in South America, the Pacific Islands, or the Middle East.