Hep C Stories
A Virus
Hepatitis C is a virus that causes Hepatitis. There are 4 different types of Viral Hepatitis A,B,C,D and E
infection
Hepatitis C is an infection of th liver caused by the Hepatitis C Virus. The virus gets into your body through infected blood.
SYMPTOMS
Hepatitis C is often called a silent killer because the majority of people have no symptoms until many year later and once liver damage has occured
effects
If untreated the virus c causes scarring and damager to the liver leading to Cirrhosis, Liver Cancer and Liver Failure
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hep C is Curable
Although the virus may sound scary, its is CURABLE in offer 95% of people who undertake treatment
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blood borne virus
You can get hepatitis C when infected blood finds its way into your bloodstream (blood-to-blood contact).
Time it can live outside the body at room temperature
96
The Hep C virus can live on surfaces at room temperature from
16-96 hours
The world's most Infectious Diseases
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Over 71 million worldwide are estimated to have Hepatitis C
Hep C & B cause over
1 million deaths
per year
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Mortality from viral hepatitis is expected to exceed the combined mortality of HIV, TB and and malaria by 2040
Deaths in Ireland due to hepatitis C every year
80
2 people in Ireland die every year as a result of complications from the Hepatitis C virus