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Hepatitis literally means “inflammation of the liver”. This is a serious kind of infection, which if neglected can produced life threatening situations. This viral disease is categorized into five types based on the kind of viruses responsible for each of them and also the kind of harm each causes to the human body. These five types are hepatitis A, B, C, D and E. More...
Hepatitis A is the commonest but not necessarily the most harmless of all the types of hepatitis diseases. It is a contagious disease, spread mainly by coming in physical contact with human excreta carrying the responsible virus. This may happen if the patient does not wash hand properly after toilet and later shakes hand with an unsuspecting person or starts cooking food. There may or not be symptoms showing in its initial stage and varies from patient to patient. Thus, a general case study of various victims of hepatitis A is needed to understand the infection more closely.More...
Hepatitis A is a contagious viral disease which causes damages to the human liver. The causal factor of this disease is hepatitis A virus, also known as HAV. Although it is age old infection, hepatitis A virus was discovered less than 40 years ago. Since the discovery and proper understanding of the disease, many effective vaccines have been created which helped in reducing the number of cases substantially. However, even today significant number of cases is found, possibly because of the ignorance of the people towards its vaccine.More...
How Contagious Is Hepatitis A ?
Hepatitis A is a very contagious infection of the liver. A type of virus called the hepatitis A virus or HAV is responsible for this infection. Here the liver becomes inflamed and, thus, becomes dysfunctional. About 23,000 people in the US alone are found to be affected by this disease. Hepatitis A contracts mainly from water or food which is already contaminated. In this case, the virus gains access in the human body through its mouth and then proceeds towards the stool, multiplying itself along the way.More...
Side Effects Of Hepatitis A Vaccine
Vaccines are a kind of medication taken orally or intravenously, in prescribed dose to prevent a particular type of disease ever occurring in the lifespan of the person taking it. However, it is seen in many types of vaccines that though they successfully prevent the disease intended for, they produce some kinds of side effects, minor or major in nature. Vaccine of hepatitis A infection is one of them. However, since none of these side effects are worse than the disease itself, it is still safe to take the vaccine.More...
