transmission

if someone has Hep c and they deliver a baby vaginally... doesn't that baby carry hep c on their skin, how does the virus get "killed" from their skin? doesn't it live on their skin and can't it be transferred to uninfected people

[Trinity4]

NO, the child does not carry the hepc virus on the skin. Whoever told you that is stupid. And if you're talking about after the birth such as blood from the infected mother on the child's skin hepc is not transmitted that way.  Hepc is transmitted from blood to blood contact.  In other words, the blood of an infected person must enter the bloodstream of another. The child will carry maternal antibodies for about 18 months and then that resolves. Vertical transmission of the hepc virus as in mother to child happens in about 4% of births.

Trinity

[Diane12855]

They was babies after they are born you know.

I agree with Trinity also.

Diane