Transcription of toolkit EMI Guidelines - Appendix 23 Hepatitis C …
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toolkit -77- Hepatitis c virus : epidemiology and transmission risksHepatitis C infection is caused by an RNA virus that was first identified in Chronic Hepatitis C infection is a major cause of chronic liver disease and death throughout the Approximately 3% of the world s population is infected with Hepatitis c virus (HCV).3 Six distinct but related genotypes and multiple subtypes have been , 4 in western Europe genotypes 1a and 1b are most common, followed by genotypes 3 and is transmitted by blood and now occurs primarily through injecting drug use, and less frequently through sex with an infected partner, occupational exposure, and maternal-foetal transmission. in some cases no risk factors can be , 5 transfusion-related HCV infection is rare now since the introduction of routine screening of blood for HCV antibodies in the early informationin general, acute HCV infection is relatively mild, with only 20-30% of infected persons developing symptoms or clinically evident acute infection.
toolkit-77-Hepatitis C virus: epidemiology and transmission risks Hepatitis C infection is caused by an RNA virus that was first identified in …
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