What is Hepatitis A?
Hepatitis A is a liver disease caused by the Hepatitis A virus. This virus is a gastrointestinal virus. If you have ever had Hepatitis A you can not get it again.
How can you be exposed to the Hepatitis A virus?
Anyone can be exposed to the Hepatitis A virus. Hepatitis A virus is found in the stool of an infected person. The Hepatitis A virus is spread by close personal contact with someone who has the infection. People more likely to have close personal contact with an infected person would be:
–children and adults attending or working in day care centers where an infected person attended or worked
–household contacts of infected persons
–eating food prepared by an infected person
–sex partners of infected persons
–persons traveling in countries where Hepatitis A is common