There are at least five known hepatitis viruses ranging from hepatitis A to hepatitis E. Hepatitis B (HBV) is a potentially life-threatening liver infection caused by the hepatitis B virus. Found in both blood and body fluids of infected people (in infected semen, vaginal fluids and saliva). Hepatitis B is the most serious type of viral hepatitis.
Hepatitis B can cause chronic liver disease and put people at high risk of death from cirrhosis of the liver and liver cancer. For some, the virus disappears in six months. Others become lifetime carriers and risk transmitting it to other people. Carriers may develop cirrhosis of the liver and are 200 times more likely to develop liver cancer.
Hepatitis B can be contracted through vaginal, anal, oral sex and even kissing. In general you can get hepatitis B from any sex act if your partner is infected. The higher number of sex partners, the higher the risk of getting HBV. HBV is 100 times more infectious than HIV.
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