Tuesday, February 23, 2016

8,000 Persons Treated By Healthcare Employees With Hepatitis C Offered Blood Tests

In accordance to the BBC, 8,383 sufferers are being contacted. Of those, 8,031 are in the place Scotland, with most of those – 7,311 – from Lanarkshire. The rest involve 336 in the state of England, 11 in Wales, and 5 in Northern Ireland.


All of the sufferers were treated between the years 1982 and January 2008. The healthcare worker was employed at various hospitals across Lanarkshire during that period, as well as doing a stint at the William Harvey hospital in Kent between the months of January and April 2006.


Hepatitis C can be prevail through contact with the blood of someone who is infected. The hepatitis C virus infects and kills liver cells. You can be infected for years without demonstrating symptoms, but if left untreated the virus can cause critical liver damage. Treatment is present that can cure up to 80 percent of cases.

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