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Risk of Post-Transfusion Hepatitis Sparks Concern

Published in Hepatitis Weekly, November 6th, 1995

The hepatitis C virus briefly made the news when New York Yankee great Mickey Mantle died of liver cancer in August 1995.

Mantle may have been one of the thousands of people who contracted chronic hepatitis C from a blood transfusion performed prior to 1990, when a test that screens blood donations for the virus became available. Both alcohol abuse and long-term hepatitis C infection were integral components of his liver disease.

Physicians believe Mantle was probably exposed to the virus through a blood transfusion in the course of one of the many knee operations he underwent during and after his baseball career. Like most people infected with...

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