Posted on 12/10/2016 8:20:29 PM PST by fightin kentuckian
About 10 years ago, I was told that there was a 3 part vaccine for Hep C and that I could go to Denver Health Vaccine Clinnic for the regimen for free. I got all three shots and later discovered that there is no vaccine for Hep C. I still don’t know what the bleep was happening with Denver Health and their vaccine. Whatever those injections are...I am no longer allowed to donate blood because the tests are weirded out by the unstable readings. Just saying, if there is not a vaccine, then well let’s hope there is a cure. Probably expensive and for those who have got Medicare.
That may be. None of the earlier ones were. I don’t even know if this new one is an interferon type as the old ones were. The regimens were six or more months long and were absolutely grueling. And no guarantee of success although the rate of success was reasonably high.
My BFF took Harvoni and it cured her Hep C. She got it from a blood transfusion. It was really expensive. They paid full price for the first dose. Someone told her about discount coupons. It cost almost nothing.
My mom got HepC from a contaminated transfusion after some surgery in 1976. She died from it 35 years later.
This is not the first time the CDC has issued statements that baby boomers need to be tested for hepatitis and even HIV. The VA in my area asked vet patients if they would volunteer to be tested two or three years ago. Strictly voluntary.
But it does seem to be more publicized this time. I only recall newspaper and general news reports previously. I took the earlier announcements as an effort to get a good sample of boomers tested to determine how common such infections might be.
Risk group is very similar to HIV.
“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.”
There is no Hep C vaccine.
basically the boomers are the hippy skanky 60’s libtards that are creating the cupcake class. since they stuck every thing and any thing in all ports and veins, a large percentage have hep c. in the last 5 years a lot of cures, not management drugs have come to market. The cost to cure is $80,000 to $120,000. The cost for a liver transplant is $400,000-$500,000. The cost to treat the inevitable liver cancer is several hundred thousand depending on when its caught, faster dead = cheaper. Wall street is pissed that a cure is available because its 8-12 weeks and that’s that.
With all that said 2 other notes. The USA is I think the last country where direct to consumer ads are allowed, NZ was the other but I think they went commie censor.
There are strains not yet prevalent in the usa that the meds have not been shown to kill (asia/Africa) and Europe is not likely to adopt because dead is cheaper.
With all that said medicare must pay for Hep C eradication, and that’s why you see the commercials.
Gregg Allman was one
Thank you, I’ll bookmark that. FWIW I helped a friend go through an older version of interferon type treatment a few years ago. That was her second round as she had gone through treatment before I met her and it didn’t work. This time she is Hep-C free so far. It was brutal.
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Hep A is usually transmiited by fecal or oral route..thats why cafeteria workers can infect many people. Hep b and c are transmitted by bodily fluids .hep a not as bad as hep b or. C...generally speaking
make sure she is being monitored for liver and Bile duct cancer
Sorry. Tragic and all too common story. Prior to ~1985, it was called “nonA,nonB’hepatitis. The virus had not yet been identified and there was no serological test. The best the blood banks could do was eliminate donors from “risk” groups and those with abnormal liver tests. Still many contracted the virus such as your mom through transfusions.Today the blood supply is much safer but drug use is very common and people are still getting infected but thankfully not as many as before.
Thanks. She knows the protocol. She’s been dealing with Hep-C and doctors for about 20 years. She could write books about both.
Up until recently Hep C was incurable, and was very easy to contract the disease.
A doctor friend said “Put a drop of HIV (AIDS) infected blood into a 5 gallon pail of water, and it’s harmless, and no test can find it.”
“One drop of Hep C blood in a swimming pool without enough chlorine, swim in the pool with your eyes open or a cut, and you can contract the disease.”
This new cure cost the pharma company $1.3 billion to discover, test, market, etc. No wonder it’s expensive. But after a 12 week course of treatment, the formally terminally ill patient is cured.
Up until recently Hep C was incurable, and was very easy to contract the disease.
A doctor friend said “Put a drop of HIV (AIDS) infected blood into a 5 gallon pail of water, and it’s harmless, and no test can find it.”
“One drop of Hep C blood in a swimming pool without enough chlorine, swim in the pool with your eyes open or a cut, and you can contract the disease.”
This new cure cost the pharma company $1.3 billion to discover, test, market, etc. No wonder it’s expensive. But after a 12 week course of treatment, the formally terminally ill patient is cured.
It’s an ad campaign for a new Hep-C drug from the manufacturer. I’ve seen it a lot lately.
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