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Eliminating Mother-to-Baby Hep B Transmission?

James MorrisonMarch 23, 2023March 29, 2023Uncategorisedbirth hepatitis B transmissionLeave a comment

Mother-to-child transmission of hepatitis B occurs frequently either in the uterus, through placental leakage, or through exposure to blood or blood-contaminated fluids at or around the time of birth. This form of transmission (sometimes called “vertical transmission”) is believed to account for between a third and a half of hepatitis B infections, and so a way to easily prevent it would do a huge amount to reduce the number of people living with hepatitis B in the long term.

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Hepatitis and Children: Part 2 – Hepatitis B and C

James MorrisonJune 24, 2022July 30, 2022Uncategorisedbirth children hep B treatment hep C treatment hepatitis B hepatitis C pregnancy transmission womenLeave a comment

In our last post we looked at the mysterious new form of hepatitis affecting young children. But what about hepatitis B and hepatitis C, which are already well known problems for thousands of Australians? How do they affect children?

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Newborn Resistance

James MorrisonJuly 2, 2020July 21, 2020Uncategorisedchildren hepatitis C newborns research transmissionLeave a comment

Exploring the low rate of HCV infection in newborns

Unlike other blood-borne viruses such as HIV and hepatitis B, the risk of a baby being infected with hepatitis C during the mother’s pregnancy or during birth is very low. Only about 5% of babies born to mothers who have hepatitis C are themselves infected by the disease.

Why are a small group of people born immune to hepatitis C?

James MorrisonFebruary 20, 2019April 1, 2019Uncategorisedhepatitis C hepatitis C immunity research transmission6 Comments

Virologist Connor Bamford and Professor John McLauchlan, both of the University of Glasgow, explain to the Hepatitis SA Community News how their research shows that not all people are equally vulnerable to hepatitis C.

The hepatitis C virus (HCV) infects around 1per cent of the human population and is a devastating pathogen. In most people, it silently infects the liver for decades, and can cause life-threatening inflammation, scarring and even cancer. How the virus achieves this feat has long puzzled scientists.

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New guidelines mean more freedom for healthcare workers living with BBVs

James MorrisonFebruary 11, 2019February 2, 2019Uncategorisedhealthcare workers hepatitis B hepatitis C transmissionLeave a comment

New national guidelines endorsed by the Australian Health Ministers’ Advisory Council have been released in January 2019 for healthcare workers who perform exposure-prone procedures, and for healthcare workers living with a blood-borne virus (BBV).

These are the Australian National Guidelines for the Management of Healthcare Workers Living with Blood Borne Viruses and Healthcare Workers who Perform Exposure Prone Procedures at Risk of Exposure to Blood Borne Viruses.

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Hollywood Home Tattoos: The Dangers

James MorrisonSeptember 7, 2016September 7, 2016UncategorisedMargot Robbie Suicide Squad tattoos transmissionLeave a comment

Commercially successful but critically despised superhero movie Suicide Squad has certainly been effective at generating publicity for itself (perhaps unsurprising in a film that was re-edited by a movie trailer company in a last-minute salvage attempt).

Among the many attempts to get people talking about it was a peculiar social media campaign in which several of the movie’s stars took up careers as amateur tattoo artists, branding each other and members of the crew with toe-faces or misspelled words so that they could always remember being involved in the making of a film that scored 26% at Rotten Tomatoes.

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