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| {{Hepatitis C}}
| | #REDIRECT [[Hepatitis C virus]] |
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| ==Causes==
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| HCV is transmitted primarily through large or repeated percutaneous (i.e., passage through the skin) exposures to infectious blood, such as
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| *Injection drug use (currently the most common means of HCV transmission in the United States)
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| *Receipt of donated blood, blood products, and organs (once a common means of transmission but now rare in the United States since blood screening became available in 1992)
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| *Needlestick injuries in health care settings
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| *Birth to an HCV-infected mother
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| *HCV can also be spread infrequently through
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| *Sex with an HCV-infected person (an inefficient means of transmission)
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| *Sharing personal items contaminated with infectious blood, such as razors or toothbrushes (also inefficient vectors of transmission)
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| *Other health care procedures that involve invasive procedures, such as injections (usually recognized in the context of outbreaks)
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| ==References==
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