Can hepatitis B be spread through food?
B型肝炎会通过食物传播吗?
Unlike hepatitis A, it is not spread routinely through food or water. However, there have been instances in which hepatitis B has been spread to babies when they have received food pre-chewed by an infected person.
不象甲肝,B肝不会通过食物和水来传播。但是如果在嘴里咀嚼食物,然后将咀嚼后的食物喂给婴儿,婴儿有可能会被感染。
What are ways hepatitis B is not spread?
在何种情况下,B肝不会不会传播?
Hepatitis B virus is not spread by sharing eating utensils, breastfeeding, hugging, kissing, holding hands, coughing, or sneezing.
B肝不会通过共用餐具,哺乳,拥抱,接吻,握手,咳嗽,喷嚏来传播。
Hepatitis B is transmitted via contact (broken skin or mucosal contact) with blood or other body fluids (serum, semen, saliva) from infected patients. Chronic carriers usually remain infectious throughout their life. The incubation period ranges from one to seven months.、
Hepatitis B occurs worldwide with a very high burden of disease (an estimated 280 million carriers worldwide). HBV vaccination is currently the most effective way to prevent HBV infection.