Many states do not actually specify a legal age for babysitters, but rather an age for minors being left home alone. In Illinois, it is considered to be neglect if a child under the age of 14 is left home without any supervision for a lengthy period of time. A mature age for babysitting may depend upon the sitter.
Hepatitis C is an infectious liver disease caused by the hepatitis C virus (HCV). The virus, which causes inflammation in the liver and can lead to more serious illness, primarily is spread by intravenous contact with the blood of an infected person.ole of alcohol in the progression of liver disease caused by hepatitis C virus infection. Hepatology 27:1730â1735, 1998. Pessione, F.; Degos, F.; Marcellin, P.; et al. Effect of alcohol consumption on serum hepatitis C virus RNA and histological lesions in chronic hepatitis C. Hepatology 27(6):1717â1722, 1998.
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.