What is viral hepatitis?

It is an inflammation of liver caused by a hep virus. All hep viruses can cause acute disease, only HBV and HCV can cause chronic infection. Chronic infection can develop into cirrhosis and hepatocellular carcinoma,, and they remain infectious and may transmit the disease for many years Infrequent cases of viral heptatitis include adenovirus, CMV, EBV, HSV, other pathogens