Public Health / Prevention
These can help prevent infection by the hepatitis virus.
What is Vaccines/Immunizations?
The liver sits on this side of the body.
What is Right?
Hepatitis primarily affects this organ.
What is Liver?
Hepatitis is caused by many subtypes of this type of agent (bacteria, virus, fungus?)
What is Virus?
In 2013, an outbreak of Hepatitis A occurred in Hawaii and several southwestern states due to contamination of the seeds of this fruit.
What is Pomegranate Seeds?
Fortunately, the immune system is able to clear an infection with Hepatitis A in weeks or a few months.
https://www.cdc.gov/hepatitis/statistics/2015surveillance/pdfs/2015HepSurveillanceRpt.pdf
Protecting and providing this resource is necessary to prevent the spread of hepatitis virus found in contaminated water.
What is Clean Water?
Absorbed nutrients in the blood flow from these structures (located in your abdomen) to the liver.
What is Intestines?
Hepatitis causes inflammation of these types of cells.
What is the Hepatocyte? (liver cell)
In order to diagnose a subtype of hepatitis, this test is often required.
What is Blood Test? (also known as serology)
In 2012, the CDC started recommending Hepatitis C testing for everyone born during this time period.
What is 1945 – 1965?
While anyone can get Hepatitis C, up to 75% of adults infected with Hepatitis C were born between 1945 - 1965 ("baby boomers"). The reason that baby boomers have high rates of Hepatitis C is not completely understood.
This government institution, based in Atlanta, GA, tracks infection rates of viral hepatitis and other infectious diseases from around the country.
What is Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)?
The liver sits under this thin structure, which is used often during singing and regular breathing.
What is Diaphragm?
People with viral hepatitis can turn this color.
What is Yellow?
Their skin can become yellow due to accumulation of red blood cell products. This is called jaundice.
This type of hepatitis has been found in wild boar meat.
What is Hepatitis E?
Adults with this condition are at an increased risk for acquiring HBV infection if they share care equipment such as blood glucose meters, finger stick devices, syringes and/or insulin pens.
What is Diabetes Mellitus?
Because of this increased risk, hepatitis B vaccination is recommended for persons with diabetes between 19-59 years of age
To decrease rates of Hepatitis C infection in the United States, public health efforts focused on making this change in 1992.
What is Screening the Blood Supply?
Hepatitis C is NOT spread by casual contact, kissing, hugging, sneezing, coughing, breastfeeding or sharing food, eating utensils or glasses.
The liver is the largest internal organ, making up this much of the body weight (lbs).
What is about 3.3 pounds (2%)?
Long-term damage to the liver can cause this.
What is Cirrhosis (or scarring of the liver)?
This type of hepatitis can be transmitted from mother to child during childbirth.
What is Hepatitis B?
The World Health Organization estimates that hepatitis B and C affect this many people around the world.
What is over 300 million?
In order to decrease rates of hepatitis infection, this aspect of care is necessary.
What is Access to Care, Medicines, Vaccinations, Etc.?
This structure, which is closely connected to the liver, stores bile that is drained from the liver.
What is Gallbladder?
Hepatitis virus causes acute (or short-term) hepatitis, which can turn into this type of hepatitis.
What is Chronic (or long-lasting)?
However, there is no chronic state for Hepatitis A or E (only acute stages).
These are the five types of viral hepatitis, which are remembered by saying your ABCs.
What is A, B, C, D, E?
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, between 2011 and 2015 in Alabama, reported rates of this type of hepatitis increased by 180%.
What is Hepatitis C?
The increase in acute HCV case reports reflects new infections associated with rising rates of injection-drug use, and, to a much lesser extent, improved case detection.