21 Aralık 2010 Salı

What You Can Do to Reduce the Risk of Getting Hepatitis

1.Where is the liver?
 The liver is in the upper right part of the stomach
2. What is its job?
Its job is to help clean the blood and fight infection and to break down food and store energy until the body needs it.
3. What does Hepatitis do?
Hepatitis destroys liver cells.
4. What are antibodies?
Antibodies are special proteins that the body's natural defenses against disease produce in answer to a threat.
5. How is Hepatitis A spread? What are the symptoms if someone has hepatitis?
 Hepatitis A is usually spread through human waste in water or food. The hepatitis A virus causes high     body temperature, pain and weakness. It causes problems with the stomach and intestines, making it difficult to eat or break down food.
6. How cansomeone prevent and protect from getting Hepatitis?
They can wash their hands after they use the restroom or change baby's diaper or before eat something.
7. Hepatitis A is found in which countries?
It is found  in Africa, Asia and Central and South America.
8. How many people have Hepatitis B?
More than three hundred fifty million of those have it.
9. How many people die each year from Hepatitis B?
 Six hundred thousand people die each year.
10.How affective is the Hepatitis B?
When blood from an infected person enters the body of another person, sexual activity and when an infected mother  infected her baby.
11.How can someone get infected with Hepatitis B?
Hepatitis B spreads when blood from an infected person enters the body of another person.An infected mother can infect her baby.Sexual activity, and if people share injection devices.
12. Who is most likely to develop a life-long infection with Hepatitis B?
Young children are the ones most likely to develop a chronic or lifelong infection.
13. How does Hepatitis C spread?
Like hepatitis B, it spreads when blood from an infected person enters someone who is not infected.
14.About how many people have Hepatitis C?
The World Health Organization says about one hundred seventy million people are infected with hepatitis C.
15.  Where are the highest rates of infection?
The highest rates of infection are in Africa, Asia, and Central and South America.
16.  When was the virus first observed?
The hepatitis C virus was first observed in nineteen seventy-four.
17.  When was it recognized as a virus?
 Nineteen eighty-nine.
18. How many Americans have Hepatitis C?
Three million Americans are infected with hepatitis C.
19. How do you get Hepatitis D? What’s the best way to prevent it?
We get vaccine that protects against hepatitis B. The best way is treating some cases of hepatitis B, C and D.
20. How do you get Hepatitis E?  When was it recognized as a separate disease?
It spreads the same way as hepatitis A.  It was recognized  from polluted drinking water.
21. Where has this type of Hepatitis been found? Is there a vaccine?
It has been named hepatitis G.No there isn't.
22.When was Hepatitis G discovered?
I was in the nineteen nineties.
23. Can Hepatitis be cured?

Hepatitis cannot be cured.
24. What are some basic ways you can protect yourselves from Hepatitis?
Some basic are always washing your hands with soap and water after using the restroom and before preparing or eating food.travelers should not drink water of unknown quality when visiting foreign or unknown areas.
25. Should people with Hepatitis donate their organs? Why?
No, because donated organs can also spread hepatitis.

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