During August 2002 in Oklahoma, USA in a pain remediation clinic, the Oklahoma State Department of Health (OSDH) received a report of six patients who tested positive for acute hepatitis C virus (HCV). Immediately after this incident was reported the OSDH conducted a study on the clinic patients, serologic survey, interviews, review of medical records, and staff infection control practices (Comstock, 2004). The occurrences founded in the clinic patients were either HCV or HBV (hepatitis B) which both can be...
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Abstract Hepatitis C virus (HCV) is a key RNA virus that contributes in the progressive damage of the liver. HCV infections have been shown to progress and eventually initiate the onset of complications such as cirrhosis and liver cancer. It is projected that close to 100 million individuals worldwide suffer from HCV infections. Recent statistics have shown that HC is the major predisposing factor for liver transplantation in most countries worldwide. Following the detection of HCV in 1989, research activities...
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Kentucky S.B. 250: An ACT Relating to Screening for Hepatitis C Hepatitis C (HCV) is a chronic infection that attacks the liver and if not treated liver failure, cancer, and/or death can be the result. This infection is spread through contact with contaminated/infected blood and most individuals that are carriers of Hepatitis C have no symptoms. Typically, we know the most common spread of HCV is done through dirty needles, but what about spreading it inutero if an infected person...
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Context Hepatitis C is a contagious disease caused by the HCV virus. It is one of the main causes of chronic liver disease and cirrhosis worldwide, resulting in a large proportion of all liver transplants in the United States, Australia & most of Europe. Hepatitis C was first isolated from non-A, non-B Hepatitis in 1989 and accounts for 90% of such cases (Chen & Morgan, 2006). An estimated 180 million people are infected with Hepatitis C globally with highest concentrations...
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Introduction Hepatitis B and hepatitis C are highly infectious diseases and occur due to being infected by the hepatitis B virus (HBV) and the hepatitis C virus (HCV) respectively. Millions of people worldwide are infected with these viruses and the infected population can suffer from long term complications such as liver cirrhosis or hepatocellular carcinomas (Busch & Thimme, 2015). A contrast and comparison of both HBV and HCV will be presented in this report. The viruses’ morphology, epidemiological features, pathophysiology,...
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Hepatitis C: HCV is a viral contamination causing aggravation of the liver. It is transmitted from individual to individual through unscreened blood transfusions just as debased needles and instruments utilized for inking and body penetrating. Sharing sullied individual consideration things, for example, razors and having unprotected sex are less normal methods of getting the infection. Hepatitis C infection causes both intense and constant contamination. New HCV contaminations are typically asymptomatic. A few people get intense hepatitis which doesn't prompt a...
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In the medical field, a virus named Hepatitis was disclosed by Dr. Baruch Blumberg in 1965. Dr. Baruch Blumberg received a Nobel Prize for his significant discovery that impacted the medical field with its benefits of knowing about the disease. The primary name of Hepatitis was called the 'Australia Antigen'. 'Australia Antigen' was found when scientists looked for an Australian aborigine's blood sample. This sample was filled with an antibody in the serum of an American hemophilia case. In contemporary...
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The oral cavity is increasingly becoming recognised as a window to general health. Hepatitis is a heterogeneous inflammatory liver disease which manifests in the oral cavity and has important implications in the dental setting. Dentists and oral health workers must be aware of the full spectrum of signs and symptoms, as well as how the disease is transmitted, in order to provide safe and effective dental care. Hepatitis A, B and C (HVA, HBV and HCV, respectively) are separate entities...
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Rationale Diseases are abnormal conditions that affect living organisms and occur when cells in the body are damaged as a result of infection and signs of an illness appear (National Academy of Sciences, 2019). They fall under four main categories; infectious, deficiency, hereditary and physiological diseases, all of which have harmful effects on the human body. However, through vaccines many diseases have been successfully controlled. Since 1796, when Edward Jenner discovered the smallpox vaccination, mass vaccination programs have been used...
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