Hepatitis B - Am I at risk of getting hepatitis B?

Hepatitis B

Am I at risk of getting hepatitis B?

If you didn't get the hepatitis B vaccine when you were a child and you belong to any of the following groups of people, you might want to get the vaccine now. The types of people in the list below have a higher risk of getting hepatitis B than other people.

You have a higher risk of getting hepatitis B if you are:

Someone who has multiple sex partners or who has sex with people who have been diagnosed with a sexually transmitted disease
A man who has anal sex with other men
Someone who has HIV
The sexual partner of someone who has hepatitis B
Someone who injects illegal drugs
Someone who lives with people who have had hepatitis B for a long time
Someone who travels to parts of the world where hepatitis B is common
A health care worker.

This information was last updated on Jul 25, 2008

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