Abstract: Background: Hepatitis B virus infection causes life-threatening liver disease with global health problem. Hepatitis B, a silent killer, making infected persons unaware of the infection due to a lack of symptoms, making it difficult to identify the disease, diagnosing it, and manage the infection at an earlier stage . Awareness and knowledge about Hepatitis B infection among the public and high-risk populations are important to decrease the transmission and eradication of the virus. The high prevalence of HBV infection is due to both horizontal and vertical modes of transmission......
Key Word: Hepatitis B Virus, Intrafamilial, Awareness, Chronic
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