[Fwd: Hepatitis C deaths will surpass AIDS, public health experts say FWD]

Rosaphilia (rugosa@interport.net)
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so why don't they clean the nyc subways more often and the handrails
especially and the bathrooms at terminals with purple-light and maybe
spend the $5-plus million rudy giuliani spent on lawyers trying to
stifle free speech on a decent and effective protocol and to staff the
dept. of health that he raided for about $5-plus million and spend some
on public health measures this way rather than malathion?

adn pataki too...darned
compassisonata-but-short-sighted-and-ignorant-and-really-not-so-compassionate-if'n-ya-make
less-than-$200k conservatives!  what the heck do they conserve anywayz?

tax loopholes for the billionaires and corporations?

who feed offa the public weal like cattle at a trough?

grrr.
almost makes me wanna vote for the philandering-egotist Trump outta
spite!

almost.

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Homeless people are among the groups most likely to contract, transmit and
die of the Hepatitis C virus.

(We're also among the most "at risk" populations for AIDS and TB.)

http://www.bakersfield.com/cal/i--1269684328.asp
FWD  Bakersfield Californian - November 12, 1999

     EXPERTS: HEPATITIS C DEATHS WILL PASS AIDS

     By LOUINN LOTA
     Associated Press

LOS ANGELES - The debilitating liver disease known as Hepatitis C will be
the "epidemic of the next millennium," killing more people annually than
AIDS by 2010, public health and safety experts testified Friday.

About 12,000 people now die each year in the United States from the virus,
according to the national Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. That
number is expected to rise to 38,000 in 11 years.

"We believe the Hep-C infection to already be at epidemic proportions in
California and there is still no vaccine to protect us from this virus,"
said Kathy Barberich of the California Hepatitis C Coalition.

The blood-borne virus can cause liver damage, liver cancer and cirrhosis,
an oftentimes deadly scarring of the liver. It is the third known and most
deadly form of the virus, which is called the "silent killer" because those
infected by it can feel and appear healthy despite having a damaged liver
and being a risk to others.

Law enforcement and health officials from areas with prisons testified
Friday at a state senate subcommittee hearing on who is most vulnerable to
the rapidly spreading disease.

"The enormity of the problem requires response at the state and local
level, from Alpine County with 1,000 people to Los Angeles County with 9
million people," said Dr. Thomas Prendergast, San Bernardino County health
officer.

The hearing was chaired by state Sen. Richard G. Polanco, D-Los Angeles,
who introduced a bill that would set up a statewide system for screening
people for the virus and to educate and train the health industry to treat
it.

Most vulnerable to the infection are prison inmates, military veterans and
those already infected with HIV, the virus that causes AIDS, experts said.
Hepatitis C is a blood-borne virus that infects the liver. Only 15 percent
of those infected with the Hepatitis C virus recover after six months. The
remaining 85 percent of those infected won't recover without treatment.

A preliminary, anonymous study in Riverside County found that out of 2,009
county jail inmates: 24 percent of men and 25 percent of women have
Hepatitis C, said Michael Osur, Riverside County assistant public health
administrator.

The highest risk for the virus is through nasal ingestion of cocaine,
intravenous drug use or shared infected needles used in unlicensed
tattooing -  as occurs in prison - or body piercing with unsterilized
tools. However, even equipment used in a manicure can pass along the
infection.

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