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It's a malady connected to medication utilize and tattoo needles, however hepatitis C is additionally transmitted through tainted blood and blood items.

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Until 1992, such items were not screened for the infection making one age bunch specifically - people born after WW2 - at a higher danger for contracting hepatitis C.

Around eight years back, Bettie Durant experienced swelling in her legs. In the wake of experiencing a progression of tests, she was stunned to learn she had hepatitis C.

"I was at a misfortune and sort of frightened, on the grounds that to the extent I knew, there was no cure," Durant said.

Dr. Paul Thuluvath with Mercy Medical Center, who composed a book on hepatitis C, said Durant's age gathering has a higher danger contrasted with different eras of getting the infection.

"The fact of the matter is, if you somehow happened to screen everybody in this nation conceived somewhere around 1945 and 1965, we will recognize 80 percent of the populace with hepatitis C," Thuluvath said. "At present just a large portion of the general population or not as much as a large portion of the general population are distinguished so more than half live without knowing they have hepatitis C."

That is on the grounds that the infection advances gradually, regularly without side effects and Thuluvath said the Centers for Disease Control now prescribe people born after WW2 get tried for hepatitis c.

"So I believe it's critical to know it early and treat it early so we can keep every one of the confusions, including growth of the liver," Thuluvath said.

Thuluvath said numerous hepatitis C patients can now be cured. That was the situation for Durant, who is presently viewed as cured.

"I can't even let you know how mitigated and how glad I was and how appreciative I was (as well)," Durant said.