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Prevent and combat new hepatitis B cases in Macomb County

Why Is This Important?

Hepatitis B virus is transmitted through sharing bloody or body fluids of an infected person.  This typically occurs through sharing drug needles or equipment, sexual contact with an infected person or from an infected mother to her newborn child during delivery.  Occasionally hepatitis B can be spread through close contact when living with someone with hepatitis B.  Most people who get hepatitis B do not have symptoms or illness.  Those who do get symptoms may get: 

  • jaundice (yellowing of skin or eyes)
  • extreme fatigue or tiredness
  • dark urine
  • nausea or vomiting
  • abdominal or stomach pain

Some people who get hepatitis B will develop a chronic, or long term liver infection that raises their risk for cirrhosis of the liver or liver cancer.  


Prevention (not sharing needles, using condoms or avoiding risky sexual behaviors) is always the best option to avoid getting hepatitis B.  Hepatitis B is also preventable with a vaccine.  The CDC recommends all infants get vaccinated with the hepatitis B vaccine at birth and to finish the vaccine series through the normal childhood immunization schedule.  Adults not vaccinated as a child against hepatitis B can also receive the vaccine.  The Macomb County Health Department Immunization Clinic offers hepatitis B vaccinations for adults and children.

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