Newborn jaundice - discharge. Your baby has newborn jaundice. This common condition is caused by high levels of bilirubin in the blood. Your child's skin and sclera (whites of his eyes) will look yellow. Some newborns need to be treated before they leave the hospital. Others may need to go back to the hospital when they are a few days old.
Rating Newest Oldest. Best Answer: Scientific name is Hepatitis A Virus (HAV). Common name is Hepatitis A Virus (HAV). That's probably why you're having difficulty looking it up. just now. Report Abuse. It's just hepatitis A. If you're referring to the condition, you can call it inflammation of the liver due to hepatitis A virus (or inflammation of the liver due to HAV) and if you're referring to the virus itself, hepatitis A virus (or HAV). Try to be more specific, please.
Report Abuse. Scientist/Doctors usually refer to it as HCV-or Hepatitis C...hepatitis means swollen liver...if you are looking for what the C stands for it is just a class name...meaning it's not an abbrviation of anything.HCV prior to 1990 used to be called non-A non-B hepatitis.The first poster is referring to the name of the virus type itself-which that information can be found in Wikipedia-if that is what you wanted. The Hepatitis C virus (HCV) is a small (50 nm in size), enveloped, single-stranded, positive sense RNA virus.'ve been looking all over, and so far the only thing that I have found is that the scientific name for Hepatitis C is Hepatitis C. Or the Hepatitis C virus.