There are five kinds of hepatitis. Each has different causes, with one commonality: Hepatitis causes your liver to get inflamed. Hepatitis disease can also sometimes be spread through sexual contact.

Los Angeles County is facing a community-wide outbreak of the contagious virus hepatitis A, citing a sustained increase in clinical cases and elevated virus levels detected in wastewater testing.

LOS ANGELES (KABC) -- Public health officials have declared a Hepatitis A outbreak in Los Angeles County with cases on the rise and elevated levels of the virus in wastewater. L.A. County ...

Viral hepatitis is a leading cause of liver disease, liver cancer and liver transplant in the United States and is a focus of an annual national awareness campaign that occurs each May. While viral ...

The closure of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)’s Division of Viral Hepatitis in the wake of the administration’s restructuring of the Department of Health and Human ...

People who ate at a Jersey Mike’s Subs restaurant in Oceanside between April 5 and April 19 may have been exposed to hepatitis A, the Nassau County Department of Health announced late Friday.

DAAs, the revolutionary medications that were first developed in 2011, are considered the standard gold-star treatment for hepatitis C today, proven to cure the bloodborne viral infection more ...

Hepatitis D virus (HDV ... "That's why we want to take a closer look at the genes regulated by IRF1 in the future," she says. The current results pave the way for the development of new treatment ...