Hepatitis C (Transmission)

More People May Be At Risk for HCV Than Previously Thought

Published in Hepatitis Weekly, April 21st, 1997

Recent media attention to the hepatitis C epidemic may have given Americans a false sense of security that the disease is one of intravenous drug users and sexually promiscuous people only, according to Stephen P. Longello, Hepatitis C Foundation.

"IV drug use accounts for only about 40 percent and sexual transmission is less than 1 percent of cases of chronic hepatitis C, while the remaining cases come from a wide variety of factors," Longello said.

The hepatitis C virus (HCV) can also be transmitted via tattooing, body piercing, oral surgery, dialysis, acupuncture, vaccinations, mother to child (very rare), tainted blood products, and to...

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Source: Hepatitis Weekly (1997-04-21)

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