Hepatitis A is an acute infectious disease, cased by a virus from the family Picornoviridae, called Hepatitis A Virus.
The most common route of transmitting is fecal-oral route. Virus penetrates in the organism through contaminated food products, drinking water and household goods. The main sources of infection are virus carriers who do not present any obvious clinical symptoms (without jaundice).
Main Hepatitis A symptoms are: fatigability, fever, muscle pain, vomiting, diarrhea, dull pain in the right-upper part of the abdomen, large liver mass, darkening of urine color, jaundice (yellowing of the skin), etc.