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Major Risk Factors for Hepatitis A, B and C
Hepatitis A
- Person-to-person contact
- Poor personal hygiene
- Poor sanitation
- Unsafe sexual practices
- Employment or contact with daycare centers and health care institutions such as nursing homes
- Street drug use
Hepatitis B
- Hemodialysis
- Patients of custodial institutions for developmentally disabled
- Exposure to blood or blood clots products
- Needle-stick injury
- Sexual activity with multiple partners (heterosexual or homosexual)
- IV drug use
- Infants of HBV-positive mothers
- Tattooing
- Body piercing
Hepatitis C
- Hemophilia patients who received clotting products prior to 1987
- Hemodialysis
- Organ transplant
- IV drug use
- Blood transfusion prior to 1992
- Needle-stick injury
- Tattooing
- Body piercing
- Sexual activity with multiple partners (heterosexual or homosexual)
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