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Can someone who contracted Hepatitis-B donate their organs to science after they die? I know giving blood isn’t an option.

My girlfriend is a dental assistant and was transferring tools that were used to clean the mouth of a patient that previously had hepatitis. One tool poked her finger thru the bag and she squeezed it until it bled. She doesn’t believe there was blood on the tool and she had her Hep vaccinations last year. There’s probably very little or no chance she could contract Hepatitis thru it, but how long after the incident should she wait to get a blood test to confirm it?

What are doctors testing for when they do a hepatitis B test? I know it’s a virus, but what was wondering if a false positive would show up if there is hepatitis caused by alcohol. Thanks.

What the odds of drinking after someone who has hepatitis?
what are the odds of getting hepatitis after drinking after them? please describe all the hepatitis?a,b,c?

should someone who did drink after someone with hepatitis should they get tested?

What type of hepatitis shows up in these cases? Is it possible for hepatitis to show symptoms at the 4 months mark?

I’m getting a tattoo soon, and I am positive that I want one. The only thing I’m worried about is getting hepatitis- a blood disease that I’ve heard could be easily passed along when getting a tattoo- much easier to get than AIDS. I’m very, very nervous about this.

Does anyone know what the chances are of getting hepatitis from a tattoo? Do you know anyone who’s gotten it from a tattoo? Or maybe you did? I just need all the information i can get about hepatitis, how it is contracted, etc. The place I’m going for my tattoo says that the tattoo artists have been vaccinated with hepatitis A and B shots. So that being said, how much of a chance is there? And isn’t there a hepatitis C?

My surgeon said there is a 1 % chance of contracting hepatitis from the blood transfusion I just rec’d. Does anyone know what type of Hepatitis he means? I have been vaccinated against A and B. He said of that 1 % chance there is only a 1 % chance that the hepatitis is untreatable.

What is the difference between hepatitis c and hepatitis b? And also can it be possible to have a false positive on a Hepatitis B test? My friend tested negative 4 months ago for it, but now she got a test again and it came back positive this time, but nothing has changed in her life. Same sex partner, no cheating, no drug use or anything. So she went back today to get another re-test, thinking that the positive test was a mistake. We won’t find out the answers for a few days though. But basically the reason why she gets tested so often for this type of stuff is because she is trying to get pregnant with invitro, and they must test for all of these diseases before they will inseminate you with the fertilized egg.
Anyway, if she does really have Hepatitis B, why isn’t she sick? And will she eventually get sick? And also, how long does it take to show up on a blood test before you do test positive for Hepatitis B, I mean can she have caught it a year ago, but it just now showed up?

what is hepatitis and how does it spread? What forms of hepatitis exist and what are complications of untreated hepatis?