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Infectious & ParasiticModerateContagious
Hepatitis C
Hepatology · Infectious & Parasitic
Moderate
Severity
Uncommon but significant — affects millions in India, with many cases still undiagnosed due to the typically silent early course
Prevalence
Yes
Contagious
Hepatology
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🔬Causes & Risk Factors
- 1Caused by infection with the hepatitis C virus
- 2transmitted primarily through exposure to infected blood
- 3including through unscreened blood transfusions
- 4sharing of needles among people who inject drugs
- 5use of unsterilised medical or tattooing equipment
- 6and less commonly through sexual contact or from mother to child during childbirth. Individuals who received blood transfusions before widespread screening became available
- 7healthcare workers with needlestick exposure
- 8and people who inject drugs are at higher risk. Unlike some other viral infections
- 9there is currently no vaccine available for hepatitis C.
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