Hepatitis C Virus

Alphabet Soup of HCV Infections Confuses People

Published in Hepatitis Weekly, March 23rd, 1998

U.S. health officials have pledged to try to track down millions of Americans who are infected with hepatitis C and do not know it.

Hepatitis C is just one of several viruses in the alphabet soup of viruses in the hepatitis family. All strains attack the liver, causing symptoms ranging from jaundice, a yellowing of the skin, to liver cancer.

A brief description of them is as follows:

Hepatitis A - The least severe of the hepatitis infections, hepatitis A can cause jaundice, fatigue, abdominal pain, nausea and diarrhea. It is passed in contaminated food and water. Death is rare - about 100 a year in the United States. There are...

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