譚健民 醫師 於 2003-08-11 18:18:17 回覆

Dear Anxious La:

Hepatitis A is transmitted through the oral-fecal route; in other words, it is affected from taking unclean food or raw food such as the raw seafood. In the customs of Chinese people, we take food with chopstick, and then it is a very easy way to contagious hepatitis virus A from contaminated salivary secretion so, the suffers of hepatitis A had better not to eat with your intimate members of the family or friends. Besides, hepatitis A is a very benign infectious disease, 99% of the suffers can acquire the lifelong immunity after contagion of hepatitis A.

Clinically, There are six kinds of virus hepatitis (it means the hepatotropic virus) including hepatitis A, hepatitis B, hepatitis C, hepatitis D, hepatitis E, hepatitis G, and also the new-found TTH (transfusion-transmitted hepatitis). If you can read Chinese, you can search many articles talking and discussing about variety of hepatitis viruses from web hospital of kingnet written by me.

Here, I shall give my best regards to you and wish you can recover very soon.

Yours sincerely,