ALERT Franklin County. The City of Grove City has teamed up with the Franklin County Emergency Management and Homeland Security Department to offer a new county-wide emergency notification and warning system, ALERT Franklin County. The ALERT Franklin.
A Honor Society of Nursing (STTI) answered. Chronic hepatitis B affects the health of the liver, causing long-term inflammation (more than six months) of the liver. Symptoms can subside; however, chronic inflammation can lead to liver failure or liver cancer. In some cases of chronic hepatitis B, patients may need antiviral medications to lessen the effect of the infection of the liver. In severe cases, end-stage liver disease occurs, and a liver transplant may be needed.
The Hepatitis B virus (HBV) may be transmitted to others through blood and body fluid contact. HBV is spread when blood or body fluids from an infected person enters the body of a person who is not infected, through breaks in the skin or through the moist linings of the eyes, nose, mouth, and genitalia.