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The web site itself may have changed. You can check the current page or check for previous versions at the Internet Archive. Yahoo! is not affiliated with the authors of this page or responsible for its content. WANTED: Hepatitis B Virus Melisa Shah 10/28/05 WANTED: Hepatitis B Virus AKA: Hep-Boppotamus Virus
GAME ACTION: Go back two spaces or pretend
youre a hippo for 30 seconds this disease is bad
news.
ONE-LINER: B-ware of Hep-B!
PROFILE: HBV is a mostly double-stranded DNA virus in the
Hepadnaviridae family, Orthohepadnavirus genus. It has the
smallest genome, an icosahedral morphology, and enveloped
virions.
POWER: This silent killer has the power of creating latent or
asymptomatic infections. Many chronic hepatitis B carriers have
no symptoms and feel healthy. This facilitates the spread of the
disease through sexual transmission and from mother-to-child.
OFFENSES:
Attacks: HBV can cause lifelong infection, cirrhosis of the liver,
liver cancer, liver failure, and death.
Outcome: Without appropriate management and screening, one in
four hepatitis B carriers die from liver cancer or cirrhosis.
Speed: If symptoms occur, they occur on the average of 12 weeks
after exposure to hepatitis B virus. Symptoms occur in about 70%
of patients. Symptoms are more likely to occur in adults than in
children. Those with chronic infection (about 5% of infections)
can die of acute hepatitis within 5 years, or develop liver cancer in
25 to 30 years.
DEFENSES:
Vaccines: An inactivated Hepatitis B Vaccine has been available
since 1982!
Behavioral: Safe sex, safe needles, and get vaccinated!
Treatment: There is no cure, but symptoms can be treated. The
FDA approved Lamivudine in December 1998 for the treatment of
chronic hepatitis B in adults.
The web site itself may have changed. You can check the current page or check for previous versions at the Internet Archive. Yahoo! is not affiliated with the authors of this page or responsible for its content. WANTED: Hepatitis B Virus Melisa Shah 10/28/05 WANTED: Hepatitis B Virus AKA: Hep-Boppotamus Virus
GAME ACTION: Go back two spaces or pretend
youre a hippo for 30 seconds this disease is bad
news.
ONE-LINER: B-ware of Hep-B!
PROFILE: HBV is a mostly double-stranded DNA virus in the
Hepadnaviridae family, Orthohepadnavirus genus. It has the
smallest genome, an icosahedral morphology, and enveloped
virions.
POWER: This silent killer has the power of creating latent or
asymptomatic infections. Many chronic hepatitis B carriers have
no symptoms and feel healthy. This facilitates the spread of the
disease through sexual transmission and from mother-to-child.
OFFENSES:
Attacks: HBV can cause lifelong infection, cirrhosis of the liver,
liver cancer, liver failure, and death.
Outcome: Without appropriate management and screening, one in
four hepatitis B carriers die from liver cancer or cirrhosis.
Speed: If symptoms occur, they occur on the average of 12 weeks
after exposure to hepatitis B virus. Symptoms occur in about 70%
of patients. Symptoms are more likely to occur in adults than in
children. Those with chronic infection (about 5% of infections)
can die of acute hepatitis within 5 years, or develop liver cancer in
25 to 30 years.
DEFENSES:
Vaccines: An inactivated Hepatitis B Vaccine has been available
since 1982!
Behavioral: Safe sex, safe needles, and get vaccinated!
Treatment: There is no cure, but symptoms can be treated. The
FDA approved Lamivudine in December 1998 for the treatment of
chronic hepatitis B in adults.
