Mode of Transmission

Hepatitis A and E virus

Faeco -oral route
· Direct - From person to person contaminated hands.
· Indirect - Through contaminated food , water & milk consumption.
· Consumption of raw or inadequately cooked food.

Hepatitis B

Who is at risk of getting Hepatitis B ?
Anyone who has not been immunized can get HBV. Small children & adolescents are particularly vulnerable to contracting the disease from their mother at birth , or simply from another child while playing. Though children rarely develop acute illness after infection, children run the highest risk of developing chronic Hepatitis B , which may cause liver complications later in life .

Child to Child Transmission:
Child to Child Transmission most likely happen as a result of contact of skin sores, small break in the skin , or mucous membranes with blood sores or perhaps saliva.

Mother to baby ( perinatal ) transmission:
Transmission from an infected mother to her baby usually happens at the time the baby is born.
Injection transmission: Unsafe injection practices are a major source of HBV transmission

Sexual transmission:
HBV is efficiently transmitted by sexual contact, cases which can account for a high proportion of Hepatitis B among adolescents & adults in countries with low & intermediate prevalence of HBV infection