How long can hepatitis live outside the body?

From the CDC: "The hepatitis C virus can survive outside the body at room temperature, on environmental surfaces, for at least 16 hours but no longer than 4 days."

yes you could, but dont worry, if your mom has it you will get tested for it numerous times throughout your life. what happens is her blood has to get into your blood, for it to happen, its rare......

Although it's true that theoretically a hep B series is for life, this isn't always true in reality. There's a thing called immunologic memory and it's defined as "the cap...

That was dumb to take the pills at the same time like that - they put instructions on the bottle for a reason. Anyway - that numbness could be from either the shot or the pills. Probably from the s...

That was two years ago...have you retested? Viruses can re-activate. Of course, there are other issues relative to the liver that can make you feel that way. Drinking would be one issue. It&#...

Yes. Hepatitis B is not transmitted by telephone.

Well you need blood contact to transmit it, so some say no. Most people get hepatiis C by sharing dirty needles or through a blood transfusion. (There didn't used to be a way to test blood f...

Several possibilities starting with the present one. All hepatitis HBV surface antigen tests need confirmatory testing done. That is normally done in the US. There can be false positives. The ot...