Patient's question:
Can the hepatitis B virus be spread through sex? What are the routes of transmission for the hepatitis B virus?Doctor's answer:
1. Blood dissemination: Such as surgery, plasma, serum, and other blood products, through blood-borne anesthesia dissemination.2. Medical transmission: Such as medical devices contaminated with hepatitis B virus industrially being sterilized incompletely or improperly processed can lead to transmission.
3. Fetal transmission: Such as a pregnant woman carrying the virus spreading it transversely to a newborn through the birth canal, and early pregnancy reoccurrence of hepatitis B can also infect the fetus.
4. Sexual contact transmission: Sexual promiscuity, homosexuality, and married couples all have the potential to transmit hepatitis B virus.
5. Insect bite transmission: Bites from mosquitoes and blood-sucking insects can transmit hepatitis B virus.
6. Close living contact transmission