Posted on 12/10/2016 8:20:29 PM PST by fightin kentuckian
I've noticed a lot of commercials about Hep C. The current one tells Baby Boomers to get tested and an earlier one was talking about a cure for Hep C. This is starting to sound like some government conspiracy. And, I'm not a doctor but I didn't think that a virus could be cured.
I believe there is a new, very expensive drug that “cures” Hep C. Probably the drug manufacturer is pushing that all baby boomers (those on Medicare, at least), get tested for it, so they can increase their drug sales. JMHO
Costs between $65 to $95 grand depending on drug.
A. An uptick in adults using intraveneous drugs, both legal and otherwise.
B. An acknowledgement that many of the illegals dumped upon our social systems are infected with a particular strain of Hep the older adults were never vaccinated for.
C. An untapped market of consumers to sell to via their trusted primary physicians.
I know one person who had Hep C and was cured with this treatment.
I find it offensive. I never injected myself with drugs and never cheated on Mr. Mercat nor he on me. So I don’t have hep C. And in my experience with clients, it’s not a hidden disease but causes major chaos with the system.
Baby boomers were subject to frequent injections during large public health campaigns such as the polio and small pox mass inoculations. Also it was very customary in the late 1940’s thru the mid 1960’s that whenever they became ill and their parents brought them to a GP or a pediatrician they inevitable received a “shot”. There was no disposable equipment in those days. After it was “sterilized” it was reused. Suffice it to say some doctors sterilized better than others. A lot of “dirty needles” were used. Good idea for boomers to be tested for Hepatitis C. Untreated it is a very bad actor. It can be treated and even cured.
A friend was recently diagnosed with it. The VA doctors told him he got it from the air guns the military was using during the Vietnam era to administer vaccinations.
Big Pharma- MERCK’s new drug- Zepatier
It can be cured (not all strains) and now they have a drug that doesn’t nearly kill you in the process.
I think it might be connected to the opioid/heroin epidemic. Needle sharing is a good way to get this I guess? Same thing with the commercials for ‘opioid induced constipation’ commercials. I mean if they are showing commercials for this during daytime TV we might be pretty far down the cultural slope.
Freegards
Offensive? Whats offensive? Are you a liberal snowflake who’s feelings are easily hurt?
Not a conspiracy, but a serious health problem, and the treatments are getting better all the time.
This the variety of Hep that Homos always have from their sex “games”?
I sill have a scar from that air gun. No hepatitis though.
It can be treated with an antiviral medication
Do you eat out at all? You can get Hepatitis from a cafeteria worker.
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