- 19, Jun 2020
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Hepatitis C virus is called the “affectionate killer”. They call it that because it initially proceeds almost asymptomatically.
A person lives and does not know that he is sick with hepatitis C. Nothing but weakness and general malaise can be observed at first.
A person learns that he is often ill only after laboratory diagnosis.
But laboratory diagnostics are expensive and not everyone is sent to it.
Hepatitis C sometimes proceeds imperceptibly and can become chronic only after 20-30 years.
And the chronic form is in 20% of cases cirrhosis, and sometimes leads to the development of primary liver cancer.