Anyone ever contract it from sex?

[gottibme17]

I have heard that it is possible to contract it but very rare.I find it rare as well.Being me and my wife have been together for 6 years and she has never contracted it.But anyway I just wanted to know

[tashka]

I read somewhere that in the long ago past hepatitis B and C spread after violent battles. People had a lot of different wars back then, and blood was flowing everywhere. A few weeks after the battle, many soldiers would become jaundiced. There are historical accounts of this happening. But probably these warriors didn't live long enough to experience cirrhosis or liver failure. People died in a much younger age back then.

[desrt]

The 3% figure you'll sometimes hear quoted is based on an old study that used several hundred couples who supposedly "had no other risk factors". These couples were later genotyped and gene sequenced and none of them could have contracted it from each other.

[Bali05]

they say mostly thru transfusion or iv drugs

but than you wonder how countries like egypt with 15% infected

spread the virus. also the virus is much older than transfusions or iv drugs

how did it mangage to stay around so long ?

[jusjames]

i read a study of 100,000  (or 1000 i cant remember )
and the result was less than 0.4 %

[nygirl7]

If you put it in the search engine on this forum you will find hundreds of threads that agree with you - it is very rare about 3% supposedly I think  but it's never happened to anybody here that I know of.

However, my husband did have hepc but he died so I can't check the genotype to find out if we matched (i had two types so it would have been easy to see if I got it from him) so I will never know.