Can cause heart trouble, skin disease, arthritis and blindness. Hepatitis B Symptoms show up 1-9 months after contact with the hepatitis B virus Many people have no symptoms or mild symptoms. Flu-like feelings that don't go away. Dark urine, light-colored bowel movements Spread during vaginal, anal or oral sex with someone who has hepatitis B. Spread by sharing needles to inject drugs, or for any other reason. Spread by contact with infected blood.
Some people recover completely.
Some people cannot be cured. Symptoms go away, but they can still give hepatitis B to others. Can cause permanent liver damage. A mother with hepatitis B can give it to her baby during childbirth. Herpes Symptoms show up 1-30 days after having sex.