|Hepatitis C Disease|
15% of cases of Hepatitis C infection is acute, meaning that the body automatically clean and no consequences. Unfortunately 85% of cases, hepatitis C infection becomes chronic and slowly damages the liver for years. In time, the liver can be damaged to cirrhosis (hardening of the liver), end-stage liver disease and liver cancer.
Causes of Hepatitis C.
Hepatitis means inflammation of the liver. Many types of viral hepatitis C. In many cases, the virus enters the body, began life in liver cells, disrupt the normal activity of the cell, then use the genetic machinery within the cell to duplicate the Hepatitis C virus and then infect other healthy cells.