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Hepatitis B is a viral hepatitis due to infection by the hepatitis B virus (HBV) and causes inflammation of the liver.

The symptoms are mainly acute inflammation of the liver, with or without jaundice and digestive disorders with nausea and vomiting at this stage of evolution is usually benign although hepatitis B is the most severe form of viral hepatitis but there, although rarely, fulminant forms to fatal. The infection often goes unnoticed during the acute infection and the patient carrying the virus. In almost one out of ten cases, acute hepatitis B do not heal and becomes chronic infection. The chronic carrier has no obvious symptoms but is likely to contaminate his surroundings. In cases of chronic active hepatitis, the symptoms can be a mild fever, fatigue, digestive disorders (nausea, vomiting, abdominal pain), jaundice, dark urine or pale stools.

Cirrhosis of the liver and liver cancer may be the result of Hepatitis B. The potential seriousness of hepatitis B is formed by the risk of progression to chronic hepatitis B which may be complicated by liver cirrhosis and liver cancer, a deadly disease with a response rate of very low Current chemotherapy

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