Hepatitis C - the facts (114k, pdf)
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Hepatitis C awareness, please take a look This may not be relevent to everyone but I can assure you 100% everyone knows someone....a relative, friend or aquaintance who has this disease and doesnt know it!!
COULD YOU BE AT RISK FROM HEPATITIS C?
It is silent, hidden and without symptoms for years. Found by accident it is one of the most widespread diseases on the planet! Five hundred million people on Earth carry it (compared to 33 million with AIDS) it is the Hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection and people NEED to be made aware of it.
Related to the Yellow Fever Virus & the West Nile Virus, HCV kills over 10`000 Americans annually and is the leading reason for liver transplants. We really need to publicize the 'MESS' we are storing up for future generations.
HCV is a devious little virus. (I know` I have it.) I was diagnosed completely (and luckily) by accident after a `Wellman` check-up.
I had and still have no symptoms at all which is the best time to treat it. Because of the incubation period of the virus which is on average 20 - 25 years (up to 50 years) most infected people do not know they have the disease. Long-term infection has caused a leap in the incidence of liver cancer and liver damage and is the leading cause of people needing liver transplants. HCV poses a public health crisis far greater than the AIDS epidemic.
You cannot be vaccinated against it. It is spread by infected blood from transplants before 1992, sharing needles or Coke snorting tubes. Needle-stick injuries, (It can be active for months in dried blood on toothbrushes or razors) tattoos or piercings or by possibly having medical treatment abroad and you could unknowingly and easily pass it to your kids or partners!!
Cirrhosis is the most advanced injury associated with Hepatitis C and almost always precedes the onset of liver failure and liver cancer. Because HCV is a relatively benign and slow-acting virus in its initial effects on the body (it rarely causes acute disease symptoms or discomfort at the time of infection) it takes a long time to notice. Deaths from HCV are rising at an alarming rate!
That's why it's called the silent epidemic
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