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Hepatitis

Hepatitis


In modern society when a person gets sick with the flu or a cold they
will usually go about their normal routine with the exception of a sneeze or a
cough throughout the day. Sometimes things can be more than what they appear to
be. The symptoms start out like the flu with coughing, fever, aches, and
vomiting. However, the disease gradually worsens with symptoms of extreme
weakness and excrushatating abdominal pain. By then it is usually too late when
the person finds out that their liver is failing and that there disease is
caused by one of the most contagious, dangerous and deadliest of viruses.
These viruses that were initially concealed by flu like symptoms are now known
collectively as the disease of Hepatitis. The disease of Hepatitis is actually
by six different types of viral infections, namely, Hepatitis A, B, C, D, E, and
G. Hepatitis descries the destructive affect of the viral invasion of the body
and liver by six and separate viruses. Each type of viral infection varies from
one to another in degree of severity. The names of the viruses are in
alphabetical order corresponding to their discovery. There is also a non-viral
Hepatitis which is caused by substance. One rumor that has spread about
hepatitis is that a person can only contract Hepatitis if associated with HIV or
AIDS. This is not true! Any one can become infected with Hepatitis.
Unfortunately this is about all most people know of Hepatitis. They need to
know the full horror of which the virus is capable.
The first of the Hepatitis viral infection to be discovered is Hepatitis
A. Hep. A is the mild mannered virus compared to the other viruses. It has the
symptoms of influenza, fever, vomiting, loss of appetite, and weakening of body,
but it does have some differences such as jaundice (a yellowing pigmentation of
the skin and whites of the eyes) and urine appears to be a darker color.
Jaundice is caused by an abundance of bilirubon which has not been removed from
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