which type of viral hepatitis can be contracted by eating food that has been touched by dirty hands?
Hepatitis A and Food. You can get hepatitis A from restaurant food, but it's not because the food is from a restaurant. You can be exposed to hepatitis A from food prepared anywhere (your home, a friend's home, and, yes, even a restaurant) if the person preparing the food is infected with the hepatitis A virus. This is because hepatitis A is caused by a virus that spreads from person to person when we don't wash our hands.