- Hello, Jeff - Thought you might want to add some of these
simplified definitions of HCV to some of the HCV articles you are posting.
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- Simply put Hepatitis C virus is a flavivirus. It is blood
borne disease and causes liver disease.
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- I strongly urge people to get tested for HCV. Two out
of every one hundred people will have HCV. The worldwide number of KNOWN
cases is 170 MILLION. It is estimated that at least 4 MILLION people in
the US are HCV carriers. Hepatitis C is now a worldwide pandemic. Conservative
estimates put the number of mother to baby transmission cases between 10
and 60 thousand a year.
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- All of the numbers are based on known or reported cases.
Many people are now in the asymptomatic stage of illness. Even though a
person has mild or NO symptoms, liver damage does take place. By the time
that mose people realize they are infected, it is too late and the disease
has become chronic.
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- There is NO cure for Hepatitis C. 50 to 69% of people
will become chronic and have liver damage which will result in full liver
failure and eventually death. Inteferon or combination of Ribaviran/Inteferon
is the only FDA licensed treatment. It does not work and only a few peole
have sustained drop in viral load. The best time to implement such treatment
is in the initial acute stage of the illness. Unfortunately, people are
not aware of initial infection and therefore do not take early treatment.
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- I urge people to get tested for HCV on a yearly basisi.
If people work in the dental or health care field, they need to get tested
every 6 months.
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- Hepatitis C is extremely contagious, more so then HIV.
Many health care professionals are finding out that regulation infection
control procedures are woefully inadequate and do not stop transmission
of HCV. Infection control needs to change dramatically if HCV is to be
prevented from infecting patients and health care workers.
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- A simple blood test could save lives. I urge women of
childbearing age to get tested. If you are planning to have a family, please
get tested every 6 months. There is nothing sadder in life then finding
out that your child has developed HCV. I KNOW, I am living through this
nightmare right now. My daughter, age 23 was just diagnosed with HCV. I
cannot tell you how it hurts to hear that your child has a viral load of
200 Million and that the infection has been asymptomatic for years.
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- I have been able to accept my infection with HCV, but,
having my child face this same horrendous illness is simply heart wrenching.
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- Please do not wait, get tested NOW.
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- Thank You,
- Patricia Doyle
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- Definitions Of Hepatitis C On The Net:
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- http://www.google.com/search?q=define:Hepatitis+C
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- Formerly known as ãnon-A, non-B hepatitisä,
it is caused by the hepatitis C virus (HCV). Approximately 85% of infected
adults will develop chronic hepatitis C infections. It is spread through
infected blood, primarily in those who use illicit street drugs and those
who received blood transfusions prior to1992 (the first year that a blood
test for HCV became available for screening the blood supply).
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- www.hepb.org/glossary.html
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- A liver disease caused by the hepatitis C virus. The
virus is transmitted through contaminated blood from other people who have
the disease. The infection can be characterized by a prolonged symptom-free
period of chronic infection. Progresses to chronic hepatitis in the majority
of infections, and may ultimately lead to cirrhosis, liver failure and
liver cancer. In technical terms, the virus is a positive stranded RNA
virus of the Flavivirdae family. More directly, a microscopic infectious
particle consisting of RNA carries the instructions for making more viruses
and several proteins, some of which cover the viral RNA molecule like an
envelope conceals a letter.
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- www.texasliver.org/glossary.html
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- HCV - the virus identified as the leading cause of Non-A,
Non-B Hepatitis. The Hepatitis C Antibody (or Anti-HCV) test detects antibodies
to the Hepatitis C virus. The Anti-HCV test was implemented in May 1990
to further reduce the incidence of post-transfusion hepatitis. The blood
from donors who test positive for HCV antibodies is discarded.
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- www.yourbloodcenter.org/glossary.htm
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- A viral liver disease that can be acute, chronic or even
life threatening.
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- www.mlaw.ie/index.php
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- Definition: A virus that causes liver disease. HCV is
spread by contact with the blood of an infected person. HCV is the United
States' most common blood-borne disease, infecting at least 2 out of every
100 people.
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- wileyfish2000.tripod.com/recoverywitthrudy/id39.html
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- a viral hepatitis clinically indistinguishable from hepatitis
B but caused by a single-stranded RNA virus; usually transmitted by parenteral
means (as injection of an illicit drug or blood transfusion or exposure
to blood or blood products)
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- www.cogsci.princeton.edu/cgi-bin/webwn
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- Patricia A. Doyle, PhD
- Please visit my "Emerging Diseases" message
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- Zhan le Devlesa tai sastimasa
- Go with God and in Good Health
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- Update
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- From Patricia Doyle, PhD
- dr_p_doyle@hotmail.com
- 1-17-4
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- From Paula Richardson
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- Hello Patricia,
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- I have been reading your articles on Rense.com for years
and commend you with the factual and real information that the public needs
to know. Your most recent article 'Definitions of Hep C' is also great
and I agree with what you have to say, but I wanted to comment on something.
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- Most people that read rense.com, like myself, are not
always medical experts and as I read your article, the first thing I asked
myself was: "What are symptoms of Hep C?" You see, most people
don't bother getting tested for anything unless they actually feel something,
it is just the way we are.
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- I know, I had liver cancer several years ago, and being
so busy with raising children and a career, I kept putting off going to
the doctor. But only when the pain and discomfort started was when I actually
went to the doctor. Maybe you could revise that article and add what possible
symptoms are, so that ordinary people like myself can not only look forward
to testing but also be more aware of what is going on in our bodies. I
have several friends that have Hep C, and know the pain and agony they
go through, but ...there is a cure..for it.
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- I cured my Liver Cancer in Mexico at a Holistic Clinic
that Dr. Donsbach runs. I don't know if you ever heard of him.
- http://www.drdonsbach.com
- http://www.hospitalsantamonica.com
- My cancer had metastatized to my lungs and I was told
here in Vancouver by my oncologist that I would live 18 months and that
is with chemo and radiation..haaaaa...what a death sentence, and they call
Holistic Doctors QUACKS!
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- Thank you again for your eye opening and truthful/factual
articles, we really need more people like you that are willing to step
up to the plate of truth and expose these government idiots for what they
are!
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- Paula Richardson
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- Hello, Paula:
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- he unfortunate part of discovering one has HCV is it
happens usually after liver damage has taken place. I can speak for my
own experience and that of my daughter. We both found out after routine
blood test which contained liver function enzyme readings. In other words,
the ALT showed elavated liver enzymes. Usually, it is combined with drop
in platelets.
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- So, I guess Jeff can simply add to the article by saying,
there are often NO symptoms.
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- HCV is the silent killer. Some people have an acute
phase but usually mistake it for simple gastroenteritis. In other words
a stomach ache, some people get a bit jaundiced, vomiting. This would
be acute and initial phase. Then......quietly the virus begins to "replicate"
i.e. grow and multiply. As it does so, it travels through the blood, and
provokes immune response. The immune system tries to kill off the virus
but, in many cases, does not do so. This continues and as it does so over
a period of 10, 20 30 or 40 years, it causes the liver to deteriorate.
The toxins go through the liver, as water through a sponge and the liver
begins to go into cirrhosis and onto liver cancer in some cases and eventually
liver failure. Usually, people have periodic blood tests and that is
when the enzymes are noted. In many cases, my doctor did not make much
of the elavation in the beginning. A few more years went on until the
elavation was so high and the platelets so low that HCV finally was checked
for.
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- In essence, there can be no symptoms or, in some, a quick
acute stage when one has stomach virus symptoms such as vomiting, jaundice
and pain in the right quadrant of the liver. So simple and so hard to
detect. This is why many people are not diagnosed. If a person does
not have the HCV risk factors, a doctor, as in my case, won't look for
HCV. This is another reason I am against the CDC risk factor protocol.
Believe me, any one doing IV drugs these days, or having unprotected sex
or gay sex is very enlightened as to HCV and stds. It is the doctors who
need to realize that risk factors for HCV are far more then those mentioned
by the CDC. I think the HCV risk factor list needs to be scrapped. Anyone
can and does get HCV. My daugher and I are examples. Unfortunately my
physician did not know anyone can get it. i.e. until it was too late.
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- So, the disease is asymptomatic and in some instances
may only have an initial acute phase, perhaps for 3 days. It is hard to
detect until the liver is damaged. Some people find out when they go to
give blood.
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- Hope the information helped? I am very happy for you
and pray that you will remain in good health. As your case demonstrates,
"it is never too late" and there is ALWAYS hope.
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- God Bless and Thank you for reading my articles and for
writing.
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- Patricia Doyle
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- Patricia A. Doyle, PhD
- Please visit my "Emerging Diseases" message
board at: http://www.clickitnews.com/ubbthreads/postlist.php?Cat=&Board=emergingdiseases
- Zhan le Devlesa tai sastimasa
- Go with God and in Good Health
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