Risk Factors
"Sexual or Household Transmission of Hepatitis G Virus (GB Virus C) and Hepatitis C Virus."
Published in Blood Weekly, December 7th, 1998
According to an abstract submitted by the authors to the 38th Annual Conference on Cardiovascular Disease Epidemiology and Prevention, held March 18-21, 1998, in Santa Fe, New Mexico, "Introduction: Hepatitis G virus (HGV), also called GB virus C, is a positive-strand RNA virus that is genetically closely related to hepatitis C virus (HCV). Persistent HGV viremia occurs in approximately 17% of US blood donors, and about 20% to 30% of people with HCV infection are also viremic with HGV. Blood transfusion has clearly been shown to transmit HGV, and sexual transmission of HGV has been inferred based on an increased rate of viremia among female sex workers, homosexual men, and...
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Source: Blood Weekly (1998-12-07)
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