However two other infected women had joined her and chase the men back into the streets.

The studies have found that about 1,500 infected women give birth every year.

But health workers say infected women may be subject to abuse if their husbands are informed.

His only lead is a green substance that the infected women cough up.

Chances are 30 percent that a child born to an infected woman will have the virus.

Scientists also do not know why most children born to infected women seem to escape the virus.

Many infected women who go without treatment pass the virus on to their babies.

Thus, one infected woman may pass the virus on to a higher average number of children.

An infected woman can give hepatitis B to her baby at birth.