The Third Type of Hepatitis: Hepatitis C
- 09.24.09
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Hepatitis C is probably one of the most frightening types of hepatitis there is. This type of hepatitis can attack your liver in a very cruel manner and lead even to cancer.
Hepatitis C is spread through blood that has been contaminated with the hepatitis C virus. Because before the 90′ s the blood donors were not tested for hepatitis C, many people have come to be infected with the hepatitis C virus. This disease, hepatitis claims as much as ten thousand lives each year in a ,single country. Because this particular hepatitis virus has many subtypes that affect a number of six genetic types, a vaccine against hepatitis C has not been made yet. The treatment for hepatitis C is also very risky and difficult. This type of hepatitis virus and with it hepatitis C was actually found somewhere in the year 1989. Before this year, there were only tests for hepatitis A and B. When the test for hepatitis C was finally discovered, many people that were tested for hepatitis A and B and were fond negative, turned out to have hepatitis C. The hepatitis C virus is spread through blood. Nowadays the risk of developing hepatitis C is higher because of drug use. Many people use intravenous drugs
and share the needles, thus getting infected with hepatitis C. Before this, the main reason why people got infected with the hepatitis C virus were blood transfusions. Because there was no test for hepatitis C, people who donated blood could have been infected with the hepatitis virus and thus infect other people who were using their blood. Nowadays, this kind of hepatitis infection is out of the question, due to the hepatitis C virus test.
Hepatitis C can do a lot of damage to other organs besides the liver, but its main target is the liver. The word hepatitis itself means the inflammation of your liver. Problems treating this disease, hepatitis C have been around since the discovery of the condition. It is very hard to treat hepatitis because this disease does not heal itself. There are more then half of the hepatitis patients who are not able to get ride of the hepatitis virus enterely. Furthermore, as much as eighty percent of the hepatitis patients will develop chronic hepatitis because their body is not able to fight against the hepatitis virus, although they get treatment.
If you want to find out more resources about causes of hepatitis c or even about hepatitis c treatment you should visit this website http://www.hepatitis-guide.com
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If you want to find out more resources about causes of hepatitis c or even about hepatitis c treatment you should visit this website http://www.hepatitis-guide.com
Many, many people who have never used drugs are hepatitis C positive. The risk factors for hep c (HCV) are:
Blood transfusion or organ transplant before 1992, received clotting factors before 1987, born to a mother who has HCV, tattoos or piercings, people who work in the medical field (doctors, nurses, phlebotomists, EMT's, paramedics, etc), Vietnam era vets (due to pnuematic vaccinations given by the military), sharing a toothbrush or razor with someone who is infected with HCV even if they don't know it yet, IV drug use even if only one time many years ago, sharing a straw or dollar bill for snorting drugs. Sexual transmission is low, but if blood to blood contact occurs during sex (rough sex, anal sex, MSM sex) then there is a risk. Also sex with someone who is coinfected with HIV increases the chance of getting HCV as well as HIV.
Hope this helps.
This article is more nonsense than not.
I have never used drugs or been an intravenous drug user.
If the author is going to write articles on Hep C they need to get their facts right and write in a language other than English as many of these sentences have little meaning. It looks like the author has bought themselves an English dictionary and attempted to translate but it hasn’t worked and it has turned into complete nonsense.