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Overview
Risk Factors
Hepatitis can occur in patients of any age group. The risk varies from one type of hepatitis to another.
High risk population include:
- 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:
- 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.