>There's no ability and need to test everyone today, but this is a sign that we should move to more regular screening of higher percentages of the population.

>There's no ability and need to test everyone today, but this is a sign that we should move to more regular screening of higher percentages of the population. Signs of Hepatitis C, along with most liver diseases, can be caught with the standard liver enzyme tests that's available in pretty much every lab in the developed world. To be specific, if you see your doctor and it's been more than 6 month since your last visit, then it's standard procedure to take a blood test. Your doctor will take out a pre-printed form that's commonly called "laboratory requisition form" or "assay requisition form", fill out the patient information and tick a few boxes. If they ticked the "ALT" box, then they have ordered the necessary liver enzyme tests. Quoting Wikipedia: "Significantly elevated levels of ALT (SGPT) often suggest the existence of other medical problems such as viral hepatitis, diabetes, congestive heart failure, liver damage, bile duct problems, infectious mononucleosis, or myopathy, so ALT is commonly used as a way of screening for liver problems."[1] Here's a Kaiser Permanente laboratory requisition form[2] with the ALT checkbox. Here's a Quebec health provider that include ALT in their general profile test #1 through #4 [3]. Testing for Hepatitis C directly is also widely available. Since it's a public health hazard, most state and national governments in the developed world has setup free testing programs. For example, I Googled "california hep c testing" and this page[4] is the third result. They offer _free_ Hepatitis C tests with the results available in 20 minutes. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alanine_transaminase https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alanine_transaminase [2] http://testinfo.kaiserpermanente.org/info_assets/cpp_ga/pdfs/Laboratory_Req_2016_Front.pdf http://testinfo.kaiserpermanente.org/info_assets/cpp_ga/pdfs... [3] https://www.dynacare.ca/DYN/media/DYN/Pdf/Print%20a%20Form/Generic-Dynacare-EN_V1_28NOV2018.pdf https://www.dynacare.ca/DYN/media/DYN/Pdf/Print%20a%20Form/G... [4] https://www.sfaf.org/services/sexual-health-and-testing/hiv-sti-testing/ https://www.sfaf.org/services/sexual-health-and-testing/hiv-...