A member asked:

Can you catch hepatitis b or c from roach bites? like if the roach had crawled into or eaten blood of somebody infected with hep b or c before biting?

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Dr. Silviu Pasniciuc answered

Specializes in Internal Medicine

No: Not hepatitis B and/or C. What you describe would be a vector- borne disease. For further clarification please check cdc. gov/ vector borne diseases.

Answered 3/26/2015

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