[AtlasStalled]

“We don’t know exactly how this virus is transmitted,” said Dr. Kay.

— bodily fluids

[goodnesswins]

Friend of mine got Hep C from a blood transfusion received during the 80’s (thanks to Clinton)....during heart surgery....she has beat it back with Chinese herbs....

[stlnative]

Another next big one may be the XMRA Retrovirus. (which may be the cause of Prostate Cancer, CFS, Fibromyalgia and others.)

[stlnative]

Corrected... (google XMRV)

Another next big one may be the XMRV Retrovirus. (which may be the cause of Prostate Cancer, CFS, Fibromyalgia and others.)

[neverdem]

RNA Silencer Shows Promise for Hepatitis C

[Feline_AIDS]

“Alarmingly, though, 32% of the current cases involve no known risk factor.”

By “no known risk factor” they mean “can count their one-night stands on all their fingers and the toes of one foot.”

[John O]

How ‘unexpected’ They didn’t mention homosexual or gay once.

Seems that the ‘gay’ community is the main reservoir of the disease.

[vladimir998]

It doesn’t matter. We’ll all be dead from global warming first. Or H1N1. Or Movie house popcorn. Or Killer Bees. Or the next Ice Age. Or SUVs will mow us down. Or we’ll all die from lack of health insurance. Or...

I’m just saying...

[pandoraou812]

That is why Hep C is called the Silent Killer. I got mine from a blood transfusion as a teen. I know I had it for a fact in 1982 when I tried to give blood & they told me I had non A non B hep. They didn’t have a hep C then. Thankfully it wasn’t passed to my children who all have been tested.

[Lancey Howard]

About ten years ago my kids’ doctor, a very smart, elderly fellow who has been a pediatrician for decades, told me in rather ominous tones that there would be a pandemic of liver cancer in this country in 20 to 30 years and it will be caused by hepatitus C. He said not many people are talking about it, but it’s coming.

[fightinJAG]

FYI:

Drinking Coffee Slows Progression of Liver Disease in Chronic Hepatitis C Sufferers, Study Suggests."

[nina0113]

Hepatitis C virus already infects 1.6% of the general U.S. population—4 million people—but “the vast majority of people who are infected do not know it,” said Dr. Kay...

If THEY don't even know it, how does SHE? Psychic powers, or extrapolation?

[Chode]

tattoo...

[married21]

I’m pretty sure I read that people have gotten Hep C from the needles used in tattoos. If that is still a common means of getting it, I worry about all the tattooed people we now have.

[Alice in Wonderland]

HepC killed my sister, a health care provider, almost six years ago. It’s a nasty way to go.