Okay, so today on the podcast we're going to be going over hepatitis,

that's going to be hepatitis A, B, C, D, and E.

I just wanted to send a quick thank you to everybody who's left a review on the

podcast or a comment. I really do appreciate that.

So let's go ahead and get started with

hepatitis a virus so this is a viral infection of the liver. The thing you need to

know about this transmission is most commonly going to be through fecal oral

transmission so whether this is going to be through fecal oral transmission.

So whether this is going to be from contaminated food or water

via person-to-person contact, daycare workers

are very susceptible due to changing diapers, et cetera.

Fecal oral transmission is what you really need to know.

The way I remember that, I think of hepatitis A,

and I think of hepatitis A anus.

So that kind of makes you think of like

fecal matter and fecal oral transmission is what you need to know for

hepatitis A. It's also seen in developing countries that have poor sanitation and

interestingly enough that there's in these developing countries that have poor sanitation

there's almost a hundred percent infection rate in children under nine with

hepatitis A it's that prevalent in these areas that have this poor sanitation

and it's also seen in men who have sex with men about a

17% rate of the cases are from that but overall the one you need to know the

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