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==Causes== | |||
HCV is transmitted primarily through large or repeated percutaneous (i.e., passage through the skin) exposures to infectious blood, such as | |||
*Injection drug use (currently the most common means of HCV transmission in the United States) | |||
*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) | |||
*Needlestick injuries in health care settings | |||
*Birth to an HCV-infected mother | |||
*HCV can also be spread infrequently through | |||
*Sex with an HCV-infected person (an inefficient means of transmission) | |||
*Sharing personal items contaminated with infectious blood, such as razors or toothbrushes (also inefficient vectors of transmission) | |||
*Other health care procedures that involve invasive procedures, such as injections (usually recognized in the context of outbreaks) | |||
==References== | ==References== | ||
{{Reflist|2}} | {{Reflist|2}} | ||
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Causes
HCV is transmitted primarily through large or repeated percutaneous (i.e., passage through the skin) exposures to infectious blood, such as
- Injection drug use (currently the most common means of HCV transmission in the United States)
- 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)
- Needlestick injuries in health care settings
- Birth to an HCV-infected mother
- HCV can also be spread infrequently through
- Sex with an HCV-infected person (an inefficient means of transmission)
- Sharing personal items contaminated with infectious blood, such as razors or toothbrushes (also inefficient vectors of transmission)
- Other health care procedures that involve invasive procedures, such as injections (usually recognized in the context of outbreaks)