Things Important You Must Know to Virus Hepatitis C

Known to about 75 percent of people infected with hepatitis C have no symptoms when first diagnosed, and the remaining 25 percent complained of fatigue, loss of appetite, muscle aches or fever. While the condition of the skin and yellowing of the eyes which rarely occurs in the early stages of infection.

Usually the initial diagnosis of hepatitis C found through blood tests that show elevated levels of liver enzymes, liver damage, signs of which became the first hint the possibility of infection.

In the entire world is estimated there are about 130-170 million people exposed to hepatitis C, and about 70-80 million people affected by hepatitis C, and about 70-80 percent become chronically infected. When the infection has begun to experience the effects of persistent chronic inflammation caused by an immune response against the virus.

Hepatitis C virus is a virus that is genetically very diverse and has a high mutation rate, thus enabling the generation of diverse viruses. Consequently there has been no successful vaccines designed to prevent infection with hepatitis C virus.

People suffering from Hepatitis C have no symptoms, although infection has taken place over many years. The symptoms below are not felt by people such as:
Tired, Loss of appetite, Abdominal pain, Urine becomes dark, Yellow skin or eyes (jaundice) are rare.

Infection with hepatitis C virus infection is also called (silent infection) secret since early infection is often asymptomatic or there is no typical symptoms are often overlooked.

This virus has become one of the causes of chronic liver disease such as cirrhosis and liver cancer is a common cause of liver transplantation. Cirrhosis occurs in 10-20 percent of patients with chronic hepatitis C and liver cancer occur in 1-5 percent of patients with chronic hepatitis C within 20-30 years. And about 80 percent of people newly infected with this disease will continue to develop into chronic infection.

Hepatitis C is transmitted through the main street of blood infection from blood transfusions or blood products that have not been screened (examination), the exchange of syringes by injecting drug users (IDU) as well as needles or tattoo equipment and piercing are not sterile. Be careful if you do not want to contract the hepatitis C virus.