ausea and vomiting, fever, weakness of body which may last up to several weeks even months, abdominal pain, darkening of urine, and jaundice (American Liver Foundation June 1993 pg. 2). The only vaccine that is used on Hep. B is called Saccharomyces cerevesia (common bakers’ yeast) (Hepatitis B 1992 pg. 4). There is still the old home remedy of lots of bed rest, but left untreated can result in cirrhosis or even liver cancer. Cirrhosis is a disease caused by a virus such as Hep. B attacking the liver cells resulting in the liver forming scare tissue. When there is scare tissue the liver becomes hard and lumpy and backs the blood flow up. This will cause the hemorrhaging of veins in the stomach and esophagus and will cause vomiting of blood. Hep. B is spread in many similar ways in which Hep. A is spread, in fact most all Hepatitis’s are spread in the same way, but there are its differences. Hep. B can be spread through a wide range of human contact including sexual contact with an infected person, as well as simply living in the same area with a person who has the Hep. B virus. It is the most contagious of the Hepatitis viruses. It’s even more contagious than HIV or AIDS, and it’s the most commonly contracted of the viruses(American Liver Foundation June 1993pg. 3). Hepatitis C, formerly known as non-A, non-B Hepatitis is very similar to Hep. B in that they both cause cirrhosis and liver cancer, except that the Hep. C virus is caused by a bloodbrone virus. Symptoms of the virus are of the following: loss of appetite, fatigue, nausea and vomiting, abdominal pain, and jaundice. "Approximately twenty five percent of people infected with Hep. C will become sick with jaundice or other symptoms of Hep. Fifty percent of these persons may go on to develop chronic liver disease." Also some people that have been infected with the virus may remain contagious for years (Hepatitis C 1996 pg. 1). At the present moment there is...
