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Order this special online report and start reading right now. From the very first page, you’ll learn:
✓ | The different types of hepatitis C infections and how they harm the liver |
✓ | The drugs that cure 95% of people and help prevent organ damage |
✓ | The difference between acute and chronic infections |
✓ | How hepatitis C damages the liver |
✓ | Symptoms up to 30% of people do experience |
✓ | The most common strain of hepatitis C in the US |
✓ | 5 ways to help prevent hepatitis C |
✓ | And so much more. |
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Dear CERASALE,
I am talking about hepatitis C.
This viral infection rarely hits you with any symptoms. You can have the virus for years and not have any signs or symptoms. And if you are a baby boomer — someone born between 1945 and 1965 — you’re 5 times more likely to have hepatitis C than others.
That’s because the hepatitis C virus wasn’t even discovered until 1989, and blood wasn’t screened for it until 1992. While there is no vaccine for hepatitis C, the good news is — it can be cured!
The statistics are alarming. But perhaps even more startling is that the disease has a 95% cure rate but most people don’t get tested and therefore end up with permanent, life-threatening damage to their liver.
Although hepatitis C may sound like something rare, the number of new cases quadrupled from 2006 to 2016. It’s now estimated nearly 3.5 million people in the U.S. have chronic hepatitis C, although most haven’t been diagnosed, which is why it is so important to get tested. (There are even FDA-approved hepatitis C tests you can buy at your local pharmacy and use at home.) Hepatitis C can remain in your body for decades causing serious and even life threatening damage to your liver.
Part of the reason hepatitis C is on the rise is because of the opioid crisis and the number of people sharing needles. However, many more are at risk including:
People who received donated blood or organs before 1992
Health care workers who have had needlestick injuries
Babies born to infected mothers
People who had tattoos or piercings done at places with poor infection control
Even people who share personal items like razors, nail clippers, or toothbrushes that may have tiny amounts of blood on them are at risk. If you get your nails done at a salon or have a shave at the barbershop, be sure to ask how they disinfect instruments.
Don’t risk permanent, life-threatening damage to your liver. Hepatitis C can be prevented and treated. Get the facts you need.
Here’s to making hepatitis C a thing of the past,
Howard E. LeWine, M.D. Chief Medical Editor, Harvard Health Publishing
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