what is Hepatitis C virus(HCV) & how does it spread?

Answer 1

HCV is a double stranded RNA virus, very different from any other form of hepatitis. HCV is thought of as a liver disease, however, HCV resides in every tissue. HCV is called a liver virus because it needs the liver to reproduce it's genetically changed virons. Each cycle HCV sends out a changed viron leading the body to be over run with confusion....just as the body figures out the first batch of "messangers" a new batch is coming out that is different from the first. The body is still fighting the old batch and now has new batches coming out...these are called quasispecies.

HCV is thought of mainly to be a "druggy" disease by many, but the truth is, druggies are usually depressed people before they ever do drugs. Something causes the depression. Viral infections do pass the blood brain barrier and confuse the way the chemicals in the brain react. So, with this being said, HCV CAN be a "druggy" disease, but chances are half of those who thought they got HCV this way actually had the virus and the first main symptom of something physically wrong, like a virus, which led to depression, which led to drug use. (confusing? not really....hcv or a druggy...it's a cycle)

Anyway. Many do not understand that the majority of those with HCV are Veterans and Children who are victims of mass innoculation (jet shot gun used over and over again with the same needle head) This spreads disease faster than another other way.

Others are recipients of HCV are patients who receive: skin grafts, blood / blood products, surgery before 1994...this could even be caused by a simple dental proceedure.

The rest are a mix of folks...blood brothers or sisters (the game where you mix your blood with someone elses) tatoo recipients, any sort of peircing, babies born to mothers who where infected (very low) sharing a razor or toothbrush (commonly known as household exsposure). Getting knicked at the barbers office, having your nails done and lowest on the totem pole of the many thousands of ways you can get hepatitis c is : sex.

HCV is a BLOOD TO BLOOD disease only. This means that the infected persons blood has some how come in contact with a person who did not have hcv. If you can think of how many things something could have blood on it (dried as well, hcv reconstitutes once something wet comes in contact with it) to where someone may cut themselves with the object with dried blood on it, it's possible to contract hcv.

HCV previously thought of as an a-symptomatic disease, however, this is FALSE. HCV is known to NOT cause an elevation in ALT and AST markers in a standard blood lab/liver panel test which leads doctors to think there is nothing wrong, so they treat the individual symptoms of HCV.

HCV ONLY causes yellowing of the skin (jaundice) if it is acute, or if a person is in end stage liver disease (close to death, due to liver cell death (cirrhosis) and cancer.

HCV can cause your hair to fall out, can cause:
weight loss or gain
skin rashes,
heart palpitations
thyroid disease
depression
brain fog
OCD
confusion
irregular periods
cancer
gallbladder disease
fibromyalgia
flu like symptoms
dry eyes, nose, mouth

Then there are the stigmatizing people who call you names, employers who think your on drugs, and those idiots who dont understand why you have to sleep 18/20 hour days. There are doctors that tell you your symptoms are all in your head (actually this is true as it does pass the blood brain barrier along with the toxins the liver can't filter due to organ damage) but the doctors use the term in a whole different meaning : hypochondriac, EVEN though you are seen with a REAL rash or have been tested for gastrointeritis or diverticulitis and it's REALLY been diagnosed. Oh, I cannot forget the LOVELY (not) police officers who think your just a 35 year old woman who is psychotic do to having a fight with a family member, when it is actually the medication you have endured for almost a whole entire year. Homelessness, relationship issues, low self esteem....therapy session that do no good.

....soooooooo many more symptoms, too many to list....if i could myself remember all of the symptoms by scientific name, I would, but due to almost 30 years of HCV infection, surviving chemotherapy for my hcv infection and still having brain fog, I can't.
So, this is what hepatitis c is. It is not LIFE. at least not a fun one!

Answer 2

The hepatitis C virus (HCV) spreads through blood and can be transmitted in the following ways:

Sharing needles while using illegal street drugs. In Canada, this is the main way hepatitis is spread.
Using non-sterile instruments and needles for tattooing and body piercing.
Receiving organs (such as a kidney, liver, or pancreas) from a donor who is infected with HCV. However, organ donors in Canada and the US are screened for HCV infection, so the risk of being infected with the virus after an organ transplant is low.

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Answer 3

Hepatitis C is a blood-borne, infectious, viral disease that is caused by a hepatotropic virus called Hepatitis C virus (HCV). The infection can cause liver inflammation that is often asymptomatic, but ensuing chronic hepatitis can result later in cirrhosis and liver cancer.

Answer 4

once hepatitis C is there can not cure it blood ,sex and infected needles the known ways for transmistion. there are some drugs that will slow the progresion of the diseae.
hepatitis A is self limited. heptatitis b can be prevented by vaccination.

Answer 5

hcv is a liver virus, as you said, it spreads by body fluid contact, good luck

Answer 6

Hep C is passed through the blood. open wounds etc. B also can be passed through the blood also. but mostly sharing needles, sex or just being exposed physically to it. There is no cure for Hep A B or C.
B is the most common of them all.

Answer 7

Bloodborne pathogen

Answer 8

Thank you for your nice question. We could see lot of informative answers from many friends.

Answer 9

needles ,sex