Can experience weakness, jaundice, dark urine, flu-like symptoms. Contact with the body fluids of an infected person, including blood, semen, mucus, and saliva. May be transmitted by sharing needles. There is no cure for hepatitis. There is a vaccine available for individuals who have not yet been exposed.
Condoms are usually effective in controlling the viral transmission.
The small, visible insects produce intense genital itching and pinhead blood spots on underwear as they lay eggs in the patient's skin. Treated with special shampoo applied to affected area and vigorous washing of clothes and bedclothes. Condoms are often ineffective in preventing the disease since infestations can occur outside of the protected area. Symptoms appear 2-6 weeks after contact. Severe itching at night, raised gray lines on skin where mites burrow on hands, genitals, breast, stomach, and buttocks.