Hepatitis is a virus that specifically affects the liver, so viruses are often specific to certain kinds of cells.

He suspects waterborne viruses such as polio, hepatitis a, and rotavirus (which causes diarrhea) could all potentially survive in ice.

practices to control viruses in food, especially noroviruses (NoV) and hepatitis A (HAV) in fresh produce, mulluscan shell fish and ready-to-eat food;