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Hepatitis C
A viral hepatitis caused by a single stranded RNA that is usually transmitted by exposure to blood products, such as during an injection of drugs, a blood transfusion, or other open blood and bodily fluids
Last year’s hepatitis C outbreak linked to the Endoscopy Center of Southern Nevada and its sister clinic, Desert Shadow Endoscopy Center, could have been prevented, according to a report recently issued by the Southern Nevada Health District. The outbreak, which likely infected as many as 115 clinic patients with hepatitis C, was the result [...]
- Endoscopy Center Hepatitis Outbreak Linked to Unsafe Injection Practices (newsinferno.com)
According to a report released by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Nevada State Health Division Bureau, the 2008 hepatitis C outbreak at a Las Vegas colonoscopy clinic and associated properties was “preventable” and “costly.” The combined cost of the investigation, counseling and testing associated with the ...(128 words)
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- Report on Las Vegas Hepatitis C outbreak released (lasvegassun.com)
The aim of this study was to determine the seropositivity of Hepatitis B virus (HBV) and hepatitis C virus (HCV) dual infection among blood donors in Nyala Teaching Hospital, which is the biggest(400 beds)hospital in great Dar Fur of Western Sudan. 400 blood donors were tested serologically for the detection of HBsAg and anti-HCV antibodies. Only one (0.25%)out of the 400 examined blood donors was detected reactive for both HBsAg and anti-HCV...
From virologyj.com
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- Low Platelets, Anti-HCV Antibodies Predict HCV Viremia (medscape.com)
- Factors associated with seroprevalence of hepatitis C among dentists at a... (biomedcentral.com)
- Reportlinker Adds Hepatitis C Virus and Therapeutics (freshnews.com)
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - In patients with chronic hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection who are hepatitis B e antigen-positive, viral genotype is one of the strongest predictors of a sustained response to pegylated interferon-alfa (PEG-IFN), investigators report.
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- Achillion Announces Positive Preliminary Phase 1b Proof of Concept Data With... (globenewswire.com)
New peer-reviewed data finding that fewer than one-fifth of the nearly 4 million Americans infected with chronic hepatitis C virus have received anti-viral therapy in recent years should be a wake-up call that Congress needs to move urgently on bipartisan legislation to support new state-based detection, research, and surveillance efforts, the National Viral Hepatitis Roundtable (NVHR) said today...
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- Congressman Hank Johnson Discloses Illness In Statement (georgiaunfiltered.blogspot.com)
- 10-minute confidence boost (telegraph.co.uk)
