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Can you get hepatitis A & B from sharing a smoke?

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You can avoid getting hepatitis A by receiving the hepatitis A vaccine. Vaccines are medicines that keep you from getting sick. Vaccines teach the body to attack specific viruses and infections. read more

Hepatitis A can also spread from close personal contact with an infected person such as through sex or caring for someone who is ill. Contamination of food (this can include frozen and undercooked food) by hepatitis A can happen at any point: growing, harvesting, processing, handling, and even after cooking. read more

You can prevent it with a vaccine. Hepatitis B. Most people recover from this type in 6 months. Sometimes, though, it causes a long-term infection that could lead to liver damage. Once you've got the disease, you can spread the virus even if you don't feel sick. You won't catch it if you get a vaccine. Hepatitis C. read more

If you have had hepatitis A in the past, you cannot get hepatitis A again. You can still get other types of viral hepatitis though. You can protect yourself from hepatitis A by getting the hepatitis A vaccine. Hepatitis A vaccine. All children should receive the hepatitis A vaccine between 12 and 23 months of age. read more

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