More than 3 months ago, I pricked his finger with a needle infected with hepatitis C. All the while, on the verge of hysterics. To be tested (after 2 weeks and a month later), PCR and antibody were both negative. Tell me please, what chance that I'm sick with hepatitis? Is it possible to have a child with the disease without causing harm to his health?

Respond Tatyana Stepanova, a gastroenterologist, hepatologist probabilities of infection from needle prick you do not. According to the literature, the infection in needle-stick injury occurs in only 20% of cases. Very often, infected mothers are born healthy children. Probability of birth uninfected children depends on the amount of virus in the blood of the mother. Similar question: ... questions: 1. What are the chances of infecting the baby, because the disease ...