Hepatitis_C

Hepatitis C Hepatitis C Hepatitis C (HCV) is a pathogen that destroys the liver infecting nearly 4 to 8 million people making it one of the top blood borne pathogens. It is the primary cause of cirrhosis and liver cancer killing around 10,000 or more people a year.. HCV is also the leading factor in patients who require liver transplant. 80% of those who contract HCV will go on to develop chronic infection and 20% of these 80% will develop cirrhosis, liver cancer, or even liver failure. Alas a slim 20% of those infected will eliminate the virus from their body on their own depending on the virus strand the contracted. The liver is very important to the body because it filters out toxins, maintaining blood sugar to a normal lever, processing certain proteins and producing bile. Patients can get the virus from using blood transfusions (prior to 1990), shared needles, and unprotected sex. . Anything that assists the transfer of HCV infected blood from one person to another can be a vector. Someone with HCV will have highly contagious blood and sharing blood related things is generally not recommended. The symptoms of the virus are not nearly as obvious as liver, cirrhosis, virus, hcv, blood, body, people, test, symptoms, strain, role, patients, pathogen, one, nearly, loss, infecting, infected, develop, destroys, certain, cancer, because, silent, yet, years, year, work, within, weight, vital, very, vector