If you are pregnant and have hepatitis B, it is important that you tell your doctor. As soon as your baby is born, your baby will need a hepatitis B treatment to keep him or her from getting the disease. Your doctor may recommend that you get a treatment in the meantime.
Pregnant Women and Hepatitis B. Hepatitis B Foundation. [Cited February 22, 2005]. http://www.hepb.org/02-0068.hepb.
There is no need to delay pregnancy after hepatitis A and hepatitis B vaccine.
Speak to your doctor.
The causative agent for Hepatitis B is Hepatitis B virus.
Hepatitis is inflammation in the liver caused by the virus hepatitis B.
Hepatitis D, also known as delta hepatitis, can only exist as a co-infection with hepatitis B. It requires the presence of the hepatitis B virus to replicate and cause infection. Individuals can become infected with hepatitis D simultaneously with hepatitis B or can acquire it later, but it is dependent on hepatitis B for its existence.
Usually caused by hepatitis B virus.
There's a Hepatitis B vaccine that can prevent it.
Since Hepatitis B vaccine only protects against Hepatitis B, the only thing the vaccine controls is Hepatitis B infections.
Hepatitis B, hepatitis C and AIDS
It is a blood test.
The scientific name of hepatitis B is Hepatitis B virus (HBV).