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Overview

Risk Factors

Hepatitis can occur in patients of any age group. The risk varies from one type of hepatitis to another.

High risk population include:

  • Infants born to mothers with hepatitis B or C
  • Children in daycare centers
  • Men who have sex with men
  • People who have anal sex
  • People who have multiple sex partners
  • Injecting drugs, and using shared needles
  • Job that involves contact with bodily fluids, such as:
    • Childcare workers who change diapers or toilet train children
    • First aid or emergency worker
    • Funeral director
    • Healthcare workers
    • Dentist
  • Receiving transfusion of blood and blood products which are not screened for the virus.
  • Traveling to a country where hepatitis A or E is common or where there is poor sanitation.

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