Hepatitis C (HCV)

This research paper is about Hepatitis C (HCV) causes inflammation of the liver and can cause liver damage foremost to cirrhosis. Irregularly, liver cancer may grow. First called non-A and non-B hepatitis, hepatitis C (HCV) was discovered in the early 1970’s, but it was not until 1989 that testing for particular antibodies to the virus initiated. Each year, 16,000 Americans contract hepatitis C, which is a more common cause of prolonged liver disease than hepatitis B. roughly guessed the rate as high as 80%, because at least half of the patients with acute hepatitis C(HCV) become chronic. It is a long course disease, often die with rather than a result of. Hepatitis C antibody is forever because antibodies from the virus are formed by your immune system, when it reacts to the presence of the virus and are obvious in the blood from between 4 to 12 weeks after initial infection (Seeff 92).
Hepatitis C was only revealed in the 1980s so it is still a somewhat new disease; some aspects of this disease are still …show more content…
Hepatitis C causes a huge damage in the liver which may cause for there to be cancer in the liver or it may even cause some scarring. It might take about twenty years after having the infection that someone gets a scar and this causes for there to be problems in the function of the liver. Because of hepatitis C there are many people suffering from liver disease, which it has gotten to the point that this is the main cause of death in the UK (Wilkie 1). People with hepatitis usually have poor health and this virus also seems to cause a frequency in anxiety and may cause mood disorder symptoms (Aslam 1). In hepatitis A there are not really any complications but in certain situations it might be necessary for someone to get a transplant. There are not any long term effects for this type of hepatitis but people might experience symptoms that come back every six months or so