What is Hepatitis C and Why Should You Care?

[williamaperrow]

So many people are infected and are not diagnosed but I'm a retired Medical Laboratory Technologist who contracted hepatitis C while processing a contaminated sample in 1983 at Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center in NY City. At that time HIV and hepatitis C were causing an epidemic and their were no blood tests or treatments for either. So little was know about hepatitis C that it was named Non A non B hepatitis. In 1992 I was a blood bank supervisor at Bergen Community Regional Blood Center in Paramus, NJ when the FDA approved a diagnostic test for hepatitis C and performed the blond test on myself to confirm it and it was positive yet still their was no treatment.
When antivirals became available I was successfully treated and the virus was cleared from my system.

[elbandido]

What a blessing everyone should be tested

[matthewrendle]

I was very stupid when I was younger tred using speed back in the hippie eria watching live music bands I only had it a couple of times that is all it takes AND THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR COMING UP WITH MEDICATION FOR THIS HEPATITIS C if your urine changes to a dark color you should get it checked out for this virus and thanks to the people who come up with a medicine for this for every one who has this a lot of people are too scared to seek help and they should do this we need to get rid of this horrible virus my regards MATTHEW RENDLE

[chriskozak]

Thank you very much for this information on Hepatitis C. 🙏🏽

[GiftEhis-yp]

I’ll gladly recommend Dr Igudia to you all for any STI medication. I finally got rid of my Hepatitis B Infection with the help of this doctor. Thank you Dr Igudia, if the world has more people like you, it will definitely be a better place, keep saving lives sir

[shenjiebao]

I have to say that my dream is becoming a student in JHU and a surgeon at Johns Hopkins Hospital. Although it is really difficult, I still believe that I always have the chance with my staunch beliefs. ; )

[brasilsoccer]

So Is it detectable through a blood test while it’s hidden or dormant?

[getphuked]

LOWER THE GOD DAMN PRICE SO WE CAN AFFORD IT!

[abdulraheemofficial]

This hospital is very good because my grandma is treatment here

[DarkJanet]

I took my blood tested and I have hepatitis C. Is there a cure?

[teawtamarah]

Thanks for this info xox clears my mind had pain but it’s in my uterus not in my liver so I feel better but still worried about the pain in my uterus

[rodriguezjasmine]

When your watching this and it's 2020

[itsalifestyle]

I just got my prescription today and I'm starting to take it but it's making me really tired but I rather be tired then to die with hepatitis c I have seen it in my family and it's not a wonderful sight it's a nightmare that I can't wake up from

[anniemiller]

So why should I care? I do not meet the list given as ways to infect.

[charlessmith]

So here is the pathogenesis for Hep
1. First, Hep C resides in the liver and makes auto-duplicates of itself.
2. Second, the immune cells in the liver, including WBCs, attack to try to kill off the Hep C cells, but cannot kill off all of them as the Hep C viral cells continue to mass-duplicate.
3. The immune system then gets overwhelmed by the attempted kill-offs that additional immune cell mediators then attack the virus - including fibroblasts and macrophages, which are sadly, overwhelmed, and then attack the good liver cells and necrotize them, and this leads to an adverse damage effect where new immune mediators, including TNF-a and IL-6, create more and more scar tissue to try to repair the affected area where once live and good liver cells had resided. But this scar tissue causes choke-off in the affected area (hypoxia), causing liver function to suffer to start its process of progressive damage.
4. The more scar tissue the liver develops after the Hep C virus kills a lot of the good liver cells, the higher the risk of cirrhosis if it is not treated in time.

[lovesharingathought]

HEALTHY LIFESTYLE AND NATURALLY ORGANIC FOOD SUPPLEMENTS WILL HELP DOES HOW MY VIRUS HAS BEEN REDUCED FROM 1500 TO 39...

[jgfgjhh]

This is how my granfather Asghar Ali died 😭😭

[exwyzee]

I have hep c antibodies and i have no clue how or when i caught it in the past.

[uttamsinha]

I have observed that those are eating raw papaya and its white milk are having less chance to develop Hepatitis-B or Hepatitis-C.

[mrt]

my Dad got it was I was a kid, it killed him at 50, well it was really my great Uncle and Aunt that killed him and stole my inheritance. But that is another story, officially he died of hep c. Cremated straight away to cover the truth.