Many people live with a bad health condition caused by a viral infection known as hepatitis C virus, this is the most common blood borne infection. This health condition is spread from person to person primarily by means of sexual contact or through infected blood. Intravenous drug user who share needles and people who engage in unprotected sex are most at risk of contracting the disease. The infection can also be spread by tattooist and acupuncturists who do not properly clean their equipment. People who have had a blood transfusion are also at risk. Every year, thousands of people receive liver transplants as a result of liver failure caused by the virus.
To protect your health from this deadly disease, you have to be careful with your sexual lifestyle, if you must have a tattoo or acupuncture you must make sure the equipments to be used are well sterilized or better still, use new ones that have not being used before, before you have a blood transfusion, be sure the blood is free from the virus. You have the right to your health
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