What causes and how do you get hepatitis B?!

What causes and how do you get hepatitis B?

and hwhjr1987 sorry you can't answer this one i've already used your info and put you down in my refrences. i spode you could answer for points though. oh and use as many causes as possible in your answer.

Hepatits b is a virus that causes inflammation in the liver. It is spread by sexual contact with an infected person, as well as blood to blood contact with an infected person.

I am an infectious disease nurse and teach my patients about the spread of hepatitis b. Here's the scenario I give: Say a patient with hep b gets a nosebleed and gets a few drops of blood on the floor. You don't think it's a big deal and decide to clean it up yourself with the mop. You use the same mop and water to clean the rest of the room. A week later you walk into that same room and slip on the floor, falling and busting open your elbow on the floor. Hep b is a very strong virus outside the body and can live for two weeks. You used hep b infected water to clean that floor one week ago so it's possible that there is still live virus on the floor that you just fell on. Could you have hep b now?

Just a story I use in teaching to provoke thought.

I have included a link below related to hep b and it's transmission.