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Hepatitis C Prevention | How does it spread?
The progression of hepatitis C
To give you a better idea of ??the extent and severity of hepatitis C, it is estimated that: for every 100 people infected with the virus, between 75 and 85 develop chronic infection. Of the latter, 60 to 70 develop chronic liver disease. 5 to 20 will develop cirrhosis and 1 to 5 will die from cirrhosis or liver cancer. As you do not want to see in this situation, it is important to know how to prevent hepatitis C.
How is it spread?
Hepatitis C can have multiple routes of transmission, but usually spread when blood from an infected person enters the body of another person. Most often occurs by sharing needles to inject drugs, or when doing tattoos or piercings at establishments that do not maintain strict hygiene and sterilization of instruments, or through blood transfusions with contaminated blood (the latter especially before 1992). Read the rest of this entry »