Newborn jaundice - discharge. Your baby has newborn jaundice. This common condition is caused by high levels of bilirubin in the blood. Your child's skin and sclera (whites of his eyes) will look yellow. Some newborns need to be treated before they leave the hospital. Others may need to go back to the hospital when they are a few days old.
Rating Newest Oldest. Best Answer: Scientific name is Hepatitis A Virus (HAV). Common name is Hepatitis A Virus (HAV). That's probably why you're having difficulty looking it up. just now. Report Abuse. It's just hepatitis A. If you're referring to the condition, you can call it inflammation of the liver due to hepatitis A virus (or inflammation of the liver due to HAV) and if you're referring to the virus itself, hepatitis A virus (or HAV). Try to be more specific, please.
Hepatitis A. The hepatitis A virus (HAV) causes a liver disease in humans now known as hepatitis A (historically known as infectious jaundice, viral hepatitis and infectious hepatitis). There are a number of different hepatitis viruses but only HAV, and possibly the hepatitis E virus, can cause foodborne disease.Hepatitis A is usually spread when HAV is ingested following contact with objects, food or drinks contaminated by the faeces of an infected person.As an enteric virus, hepatitis A shares some characteristics with norovirus.orovirus is the name given to a group of related viruses that were first described following an outbreak of gastroenteritis in a school in Norwalk, Ohio in 1968. They are highly infectious enteric viruses â fewer than 100 virus particles can cause infection (1) â and are the major cause of gastroenteritis in humans.