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Hepatitis C virus (HCV)
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- Hepatitis C virus causes serious damage to the liver and can be fatal.
- Infection can occur without symptoms or only mild ones.
- Chronic hepatitis develops in 75 to 80 percent of infected patients, and 70 percent of these individuals get active liver disease. Of those with active liver disease,10 to 20 percent develop cirrhosis and 1to 5 percent develop liver cancer.
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