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Actually a significant population in the US was infected by blood transfusion; the US didn't start properly/universally screening blood and taking precautions f

Actually a significant population in the US was infected by blood transfusion; the US didn't start properly/universally screening blood and taking precautions for hep C until 1992. This is why there's a spike in infection rate among older people, and why hep C is considered a looming cost crisis for Medicare -- we don't yet know the full extent of the infectious disaster that was unscreened blood, but it's ticking away inside anyone who received a transfusion prior to 1992.

bunnymancer 11y ago
There's something rather unsettling about the realization that Jehova's Witnesses had a point about something once..
- stdbrouw 11y ago
  If you're getting a blood transfusion it's usually because you need it. I'd take hepatitis C over death any day.
- gaur 11y ago
  A broken clock is right twice a day.
0bamacare 11y ago
That's the 10% that the insurance companies have already treated.Most of those waiting now are the F1 and F2 variety.