What Are The Chances Of Getting Cured From Hepatitis

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Chances of curing acute Hepatitis C

Hi, I have read anywhere from 5%-80% cure rate of acute hepatitis c, depending on what strain you have. Could you please give me numbers that you are aware of? My mom is 50 and I am 24 years old. We came into contact with a person that looked like...

Response from Barbara McGovern, M.D.

Tufts University School of Medicine

Persons who have just been infected with HCV can sometimes clear the virus on their own. In our own group of patients that we have been studying, about 40 percent clear without treatment. That is why it is important to follow HCV RNA levels over a... Read more »

curious (SEXUAL TRANSMISSION OF HEPATITIS C)(HEPATITIS C AND DELAYED HIV SEROCONVERSION)(CURE FOR HIV)

Hey Dr. Frascino,First off, thanks for everything you do. Your hard work and dedication to all of... Read more »

Response from Robert J. Frascino, M.D. »

HepC Geno 2b has good chance of being cured?

Hello. I have chronic hepatitis C. I have probably had it for many years. My genotype is 2b, ALT... Read more »

Response from Maribel Rodriguez-Torres, M.D. »

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Articles

My Fight for a Hepatitis C Cure

Lynda Dee I thought I had dodged a bullet. I had stopped using heroin intravenously in the early '70s and tested HIV negative. My husband wasn't so lucky -- he died of complications from AIDS in 1987, two years after our son died from SIDS. I... Read more »

U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Finally, Progress Against a Silent Killer; Brand New Treatment for Hepatitis C Increases Importance of Getting Tested

"Last week, the US Department of Health and Human Services, along with members of Congress, unveiled a detailed action plan for dealing with America's epidemic of viral hepatitis. And Friday marked the beginning of a new era for the treatment of... Read more »

A New Drug Shows Promise of Hepatitis C Cure

Researchers report success in blocking the hepatitis C virus's ability to colonize liver cells in 18 hepatitis C-infected patients with five weeks of treatment using the antisense oligonucleotide miravirsen. Fourteen weeks after miravirsen... Read more »

Vertex, J&J Hepatitis C Drug Gets European Union Nod

After winning US approval in May, the new hepatitis C virus treatment telaprevir has been OK'd by EU regulators, Vertex Pharmaceuticals and Johnson & Johnson said Tuesday. J&J has European rights to the drug; Vertex, which holds exclusive US... Read more »

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oral sex and chances of getting disease

Posted by yasar2040, 1 Reply

Hi,

I am a married man, my wife does not like to have oral sex. But I have been really crazy about it.

I had taken a massage service by a lady, out of excitement I paid extra money and asked lady to massage private part. I also touched my tongue to... Read more »

Chances of getting HIV when you have dermatitis

Posted by Antre, 1 Reply

Hi. I would like to ask about the chances of getting HIV when you have dermatitis and touch body fluids. Moreover what are the chances if these body fluids where out of the body for some minutes?

One friend of mine wanted to have sex at a brothel and... Read more »

Chances of getting HIV

Posted by cookie, 3 Replies

Hi,

One day at school, i found a drop of blood on my skin and i don't know who it was. I want to ask the cances of me getting HIV and how much blood is needed to transmit HIV?

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whats my chance of getting AIDS by giving oral sex

Posted by Anonymous, 1 Reply

About 3 weeks ago I gave oral sex to a sex worker in China. It lasted for about 1-2 minutes and I didn't feel any cuts in my mouth. What would be the possibility of me contracting AIDS this way assuming if she was HIV positive?

This is the most... Read more »

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