WOW! 2001? No I di dnot know that either. All I have ever heard was that the text was developed in 1999.
That does make sense though. A friend of mine, in 2006, had a baby, after going home she started to hemorage. She had to be admitted in to the hospiatl where over the course of a few days had 4 pints of blood
When the OBGYN came to see her, she told her that she could have exposed herself to HCV, AIDS, etc. My friend, said, I thought there was a test. The doctor said "it is not 100%"" who knew that
I would like to apologize again for not getting it right the first time.
I meant to say that on the radio WTOP news radio got it wrong when the mentioned ways HCV could be transmitted when they mentioned that a new drug had been approved by the FDA..
I think ignorance about HCV is just awful. I thought by commenting on the WTOP website which is read by most in Washington DC Metro area that it could go a long way in bringing awareness to this issue.
Look at all the tattoos out there.
As usual I got it wrong. Yes, I am a fool, no study needed for that ha ha.
As is the norm, my heart was in the right place, my foot in my mouth.
Saying that, I would be the fool if it would help save one persons life. If one person would get help because of my comment it would be really gratifying.
Please comment on the article. Please bring awareness to HCV.
I am trying to get people to sign the petition that Margarette Duddley has started. They have over 80K signatures, only need 100K to get the president to address it.
Once it reaches 100K he has to address
I am going there again now to try to comment for the 4th and 5th time
I will come back with the URL for Margaretts petition
I also agree imho, The hepatitiscnewdrugsresearch.com website is really good.
on the hvcvets.com site article i saw this for the first time.... about the 1992 test was only 65% effective in detecting HCV (+AB test i am assuming) and then the test didnt detect 99% until 2001? that is not much more than 50% until 2001.... That is not good.. Have I been under a rug or something? I am just now seeing this for the first time.
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"The Hepatitis C epidemic is discovering what was... In 1988, 242,000 Hepatitis C infections were reported annually. These high figures were reported from the 1960s and throughout 1980s, then declining after 1992 when another test developed detected 65% of positive patients. However, it wasn't until 2001 a test was able to detect 99.9% of positive results."
I agree the article is lame and incomplete. You would think by now people would have the facts straight. guess not. Hey everybody! Go get tested no matter what your doctor says. Insist upon it!! They work for you .
Dee,
I recently stumbled across this website, which seems to be one of the best I have found in 3 years of research. Very extensive, very complete, regarding HCV and includes info on cirrhosis and HCC.
Hope all is well with you.
halfwatt
http://hepatitiscnewdrugresearch.com/
here is the article, for some reason I can't even post the HCVVets website to tr to help
http://www.wtop.com/267/3511288/FDA-clears-Johnson-amp-Johnson-hepatitis-C-drug
Thank you for helping me, I really appreciate. I am babysitting and went too fast while she was sleeping I was telling WTOP news to go to HCVets so they could help people
so very sorry not HCV vets, www.wtop.com
I guess I forgot to show the URL, so sorry, I will get it, again really sorry
I was telling them to go to hcv vets
I went to hcvets.com but didn't see what you are describing. Their home page clearly describes all the different ways it can be transmitted and does a good job at it. I didn't see any links talking about the approval of semiprevir. Can you give a more specific URL? Maybe you meant an entirely different site but forgot to include the URL?