Who is at risk of hepatitis B?

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention say that these groups are more likely to get hepatitis B:

• Persons with multiple sex partners or diagnosis of a sexually transmitted disease
• Men who have sex with men
• Sex contacts of infected persons
• Injection drug users
• Household contacts of chronically infected persons
• Infants born to infected mothers
• Infants and children of immigrants from areas with high rates of hepatitis B, particularly Africa, Asia, Alaska, and parts of South America (see map.)
• Health care and public safety workers
• Hemodialysis patients (or people who use a kidney machine)

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