Hepatitis D Transmission
Ways of transmission
Hepatitis D virus is transmitted the same way as the HBV : The infection with hepatitis B virus occurs when infected blood enters the body of an not infected person. It is also transmitted trough unprotected (without a latex barrier) sex and very commonly from an infected mother to her baby during birth.
There are several groups that have a higher risk of being/getting infected with hepatitis D virus:
- Persons who are already infected with hepatitis B virus;
- Persons with multiple sex partners or diagnosis of a sexually transmitted disease;
- Infants born to infected mothers;
- Persons who work or are patients in a health care or long-term care facility;
- Persons who have household contacts of chronically infected persons;
- People who received multiple transfusions of blood or blood products;
- Users of the injection drugs;
- Persons that work or are incarcerated in a prison;
- People whose blood could have contact with saliva from a person infected with hepatitis B+D viruses.
- Persons who travel to countries with a high incidence of hepatitis B+D;
- Men who have sex with men;