If you are not infected with hepatitis B, you will not normally be infected with viral hepatitis D unless you are infected with both hepatitis B and viral hepatitis D.
Viral hepatitis D is a systemic infection caused by the hepatophilic D virus that damages the liver and does not exist alone.
In most cases, patients with viral hepatitis D infection have a subsequent worsening of hepatitis B, which can also easily turn into chronic hepatitis.