The viral illness kills more people in the city than HIV, but antiviral medications may be helping cut its transmission.

During the COVID-19 pandemic, health worker Maria Tereza Malheiros Sapienza's curiosity was aroused by her immunity to ...

The only natural host of the hepatitis C virus (HCV) is humans. Model organisms for laboratory studies, especially mice, ...

Hepatitis C is an infectious disease of the liver caused by the hepatitis C virus (HCV). In the United States, it is the most common blood-borne infection, impacting around 2.4 million Americans, or ...

Viral infectious diseases, caused by numerous viruses including severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), influenza A virus (IAV), enterovirus (EV), human immunodeficiency virus ...

After this period of rapid replication, viral levels stabilize ... for new antiviral therapies and vaccine development for hepatitis C. Recipients (5–14-day-old) were anesthetized with halothane ...

(1) Studies involving non-cirrhotic or non-CHB-related cirrhosis patients; (2) Patients co-infected with other hepatitis viruses (A, C, D, or E) or human immunodeficiency virus; (3) Patients with ...

Hepatitis C can be transmitted when blood that carries the virus comes into contact with the blood of someone who does not have the virus. This can occur if people share needles or personal care ...

You can contract hepatitis C by blood-to-blood contact. Ways to avoid reinfection to the hepatitis C virus include avoiding sharing needles and using condoms or another barrier method during sex.

Hepatitis and cirrhosis are both diseases that affect the liver. Since hepatitis and cirrhosis are in many ways on a continuum of disease, the symptoms may be very similar. However, there are a ...