It is much less common in the United States than in Africa and South America. Infection usually spread by food or water that has been contaminated by sewage. It is rarely spread by sex, transfusions, or dirty needles. If you contracted HAV infection, you would probably be very ill for a few weeks and then recover completely. Rarely causes chronic liver disease, cirrhosis, liver cancer, or death.
Infected people are able to spread the infection for only a few weeks.
Almost identical to HAV infection, but it is rare in the United States. Most of these diseases are rare in the United States and are even more rarely transmitted in the workplace. I, Q fever, syphilis, toxoplasmosis, American trypanosomiasis, and yersiniosis. It is also an important indication for liver transplantation. In Europe and Japan the disease is more important numerically than is either hepatitis B or HIV infection.