KROK 1 2018 – Question 44 · KROK (Medicine) · Microbiology, Virology, and Immunology
In a township there was registered an outbreak of hepatitis, which had supposedly spread through the water supply. What hepatitis virus could be the cause of the outbreak in this township?
- A. Hepatitis G virus
- B. Hepatitis D virus
- C. Hepatitis B virus
- D. Hepatitis E virus
- E. Hepatitis C virus
Hint
Ask which hepatitis viruses are transmitted by the fecal-oral route rather than by blood or body fluids, and which of them fits a waterborne outbreak.
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