What is Hepatits A?

What is Hepatitis A?

• Hepatitis A is a virus that causes liver disease.

What can Hepatitis A do to you child?

• Hepatitis A can cause many symptoms, including:
  - Fever
  - Nausea and stomach pain
  - Loss of appetite and tiredness-
  - Yellowing of the skin and the whites of the eyes
  - In rare cases; Hepatitis A can cause death

• All children are at risk
• Ask your doctor how to help protect your child.

How does it spread?

• Person-to-person contact
• Eating or drinking something that has been contaminated with the virus.
• Some people can spread Hepatitis A without showing symptoms.