people who are most at risk for developing viral hepatitis are workers in the health care professions people with multiple sexual partners intravenous drug users and hemophiliacs who receive blood clotting factors. blood transfusion once a common means of spreading viral hepatitis now is a rare cause of hepatitis. viral hepatitis is generally thought to be as much as 10 times more common among lower socio-economic and poorly educated individuals. about one third of all cases of hepatitis come from an unknown or unidentifiable source. this means that you don't have to be in a high risk group in order to be infected with a hepatitis virus.
who is at risk for viral hepatitis?