Transmission

Maternal Infections A Major Source of HCV In Children In Italy

Published in Health and Medicine Week, July 30th, 2001

by Sonia Nichols, senior medical writer - A study of hepatitis C virus (HCV) infections among children in Italy during the last decade has revealed almost half of the youngsters acquired HCV from their mothers.

Injecting illegal drugs, undergoing blood transfusions, and having unprotected sexual contact with an infected individual are some of the risk factors for becoming infecting with HCV. However, mothers infected with HCV can pass the virus to their infants during pregnancy, a process known as vertical transmission. Medical researchers in Italy say vertical transmission caused as many as 46% of pediatric HCV cases in the past decade, with blood transfusions making...

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