Hepatitis C "the silent killer"

Hepatitis C is a disease that is easily spread. Hepatitis C is one type of virus infection on the heart. Infection can cause inflammation and damage to the heart. On some cases, hepatitis C can be cirrhosis (magnification) heart, liver cancer, and / or death due to heart failure. According to World Health Organization (WHO), from 170 million people with hepatitis C worldwide, seven million of them are Indonesians. Approximately 80 percent of people newly infected, the disease will continue to develop into chronic infection. Cirrhosis occurs in approximately 10-20 percent of people with chronic hepatitis C and liver cancer occur in 1-5 percent of people with chronic hepatitis C within a period of 20-30 years. About 30 percent of people with hepatitis C when left for long periods have a tendency exposed heart (cirrhosis) and liver cancer. All people are at risk for contracting viral hepatitis C. The virus can be spread through blood and body fluids, such as blood transfusion , unsafe sex, tattoos, piercing, and injection. Hepatitis C virus is also spread through direct contact with blood or blood products. Main routes of transmission through blood transfusion and the syringe is not sterile or alternately repeated usage. People who work associated with the use of syringe and the human body fluids, such as health workers and laboratory staff, also including the groups that risk. Hepatitis C is a public health problem because it continues to be most often chronicles hepatitis, cirrhosis, and primary liver cancer. compared with hepatitis B, hepatitis C virus often causes chronic liver disease. Replication or virus is very productive and can reach 10 trillion copies of virus per day.
Infectious hepatitis C virus has become a pandemic or global epidemic, where people more than the Human Immunodeficiency Virus infection. Hepatitis C virus is a very variation genetic. The virus also has a number or changes in the genetic mutation is high, so that the virus often appears mutant which can avoid the body's antibody.
This disease has no specific symptoms. Therefore, it is often also referred to as a hidden infection (silent infection0. Chronic hepatitis C is known as the silent killer because about 90 percent. Height virus production could bring the next generation hepatitis C virus are diverse, and this allows the virus escape from immune system lunge. As a result, there has been no successful vaccine is created to prevent virus infection of hepatitis C. Medicine hepatitis C infection type 1 requires one year, while hepatitis C infection type two and three for six months.
The success of hepatitis C virus is influenced factors of age, gender, body weight, and the number and type of virus. The success of hepatitis C infection about 85 percent. "The more difficult the older treated. The success in the treatment of women more than men. Excess weight also decrease the level of success of treatment.