Hepatitis C

Hepatitis C is a decease caused by virus which attacts liver. The decease, the virus itself, is very contagious, it can be spread from person to another through contact with infected blood, for example Hepatitis C can infect one if he/she got transfusion of blood that has the virus. Also a person can get the virus by sharing needles for drug abuser who has infected blood, from sex partner and pregnant mother to her baby. The virus is very dangerous, once one had the virus it usually does not bring any symptoms at first so the person will feel ok as if he/she doesn’t have any sickness, but in ten to twenty years the virus will accumulated and cause liver cancer or cirrhoses that is a chronic decease of the liver marked by degeneration of cells, inflammation and fibrous thickening of tissue. In this stage it will be hard to be cured or maybe it is too late which lead to deaths. That is why Hepatitis C is known as silent killer. There are several types in Hepatitis C they are Type IA that usually spreads in Asia and Africa, type IB spreads in USA and Europe. Moreover unlike other kinds of Hepatitis such as Hepatitis A and B, there is no vaccine against Hepatitis C. Therefore it is very important to beware of the killing virus and try to avoid it by learning how the virus spreads. This killing virus, however, if identified in early stage can be cured by two kinds of medications, which just launched in the past three years and already proved of healing the decease. The medications are called Pegasys it is an injection kind of medicine and the tablet called Ribavirin which the patient must take all together during the healing process although there are side effects of taking those medications like hair loss, skin problems even depression, Pegasys and Ribavirin are the only medicine which can fight Hepatitis C virus until now.