Hepatitis A outbreak in popular European destinations has sickened thousands, primarily affecting unvaccinated individuals ...

Scripps Research and the University of Amsterdam have identified, with unprecedented accuracy, key proteins that the Hepatitis C virus (HCV) needs to enter cells. The discovery, reported in ...

The hepatitis B virus (HBV) affects the liver and can cause acute or chronic illness. The virus’s life cycle involves entering liver cells and producing new virus cells to trigger infections in ...

The virus infects liver cells, typically establishing a "silent" infection for decades until liver damage becomes severe enough to cause symptoms. It is projected that roughly 60 million people ...

Hepatitis D is the most severe of all viral hepatitis infections, leading to quick onset of liver scarring and liver cancer. The pathogen that causes the disease, hepatitis D virus, is a virus ...

Structure and Genome of Hepatitis B Virus. HBV is quite small compared to many other viruses, measuring just 3.2 kb in genome size. Unlike typical DNA viruses, ...

Hepatitis A is a highly contagious liver infection caused by a virus. Learn more about the symptoms, causes, diagnosis, treatment, and vaccine for hepatitis A.

The structure of the hepatitis B virus. The hepatitis B virus is interesting in its ability to use relatively few virus proteins to carry out a wide range of actions.

March 5: Louisville is epicenter for more than 100 cases of hepatitis A Jan. 9: Hepatitis C spike in Cincinnati links HIV to injection-drug use In 2016, almost 3,000 cases were reported to the CDC ...

Panel A shows the structure of HDV, which shares the hepatitis B surface antigen (HBsAg) envelope with hepatitis B virus. The virion contains a single-stranded, circular RNA genome of ...

The virus can survive outside the body for at least seven days. In rare cases , hepatitis B has been known to spread from a health-care worker to a patient during certain medical procedures.