#Hepatitisvirus What is hepatitis?   and what are Types of hepatitis ? Any thing which causes   liver to be inflamed which manifests   as abnormal liver functional test is hepatitis Commonest   causes of hepatitis is viral hepatitis   the causes are   alcoholic   non alcoholic fatty liver diseases as well as drugs induced. Viral hepatitis Hepatitis can be   either   acute   or chronic   We   need to understand   that different   type of virus causes different   type of viral hepatitis  in which  A   AND   E   cause   acute one  whereas     B and C cause chronic   hepatitis. Once you have   hepatitis  its   lasts   for   less than 6   month  than that is   acute   hepatitis   while  if you have   chronic  hepatitis   the   infection lasts for more than 6 month and   keeps on infecting  then it is   chronic hepatitis. Overall   viral Hepatitis is a major health problem in india so much so   that is equals    to big three disease and morbidity caused by malaria tb