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Experts speculate that the history of Hepatitis C goes back over the past 30 million years or so. This premise is impossible to substantiate because our ancestors decided (poorly) to chronicle their scientific findings about this deadly virus on the walls of their caves with chalk.
Seriously though… what can be substantiated is that the Hepatitis C Virus (HCV) was first identified in the late 1980’s. Prior to its identification and naming it was known simply as non-A, non-B hepatitis (nanb) because victims of hepatitis were found to be negative for both Hepatitis A and B.
After its discovery, researchers were able to determine that Hepatitis C accounted for a large number of hepatitis cases. This determination brought with it the realization that Hepatitis C was a modern day epidemic.
Estimates for those infected with Hepatitis C are roughly 3% of the 6.6 billion earthly inhabitants which equates to 198 million give or take… Statistics show that over 80% of those become chronic and lead to liver disease.
The Centers for Disease Control (CDC) estimates 4.1 million (1.6%) Americans have been infected with HCV, of whom 3.2 million are chronically infected.
Hepatitis C, also referred to as Hep C or HCV, formerly known as non-A non B, is justifiably one of the main threats to public health today. THE GOOD NEWS
CDC reports the estimated number of new infections per year has declined from an average of 240,000 in the 80's to 19,000 in 2006.
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