Hepatitis risk factors

Risk Factors
Hepatitis can occur in any age group patients. The risk varies from one type of hepatitis to another.


 * Infants born to mothers with hepatitis B or C
 * Children in daycare centers
 * Men who have sex with men
 * People who have anal sex
 * People who have multiple sex partners
 * Injecting drugs, and using shared needles
 * Job that involves contact with bodily fluids, such as:
 * Childcare workers who change diapers or toilet train children
 * First aid or emergency worker
 * Funeral director
 * Healthcare workers
 * Dentist
 * Receiving transfusion of blood and blood products which are not screened for the virus.
 * Traveling to a country where hepatitis A or E is common or where there is poor sanitation.