Hepatitis S - Canadian Task Force on Preventative Health Cares

In canada, between point six four and point seven, one % of the population are infected with chronic habitites. Other important rist factors are being a health care worker or having travelled to or resided in a hepetitese endemic country. The initial screening test for hepotitus is the hepetites anti body test. This will be positive in most individuals with either an active, acute or chronic action. It could also be positive in those who have been infected in the past and then treated, or whose immune systems have spontaneously cleared the virus. Something to note is that someone who cleared he petitise or has been treated in the past is not immune to subsequent infection.