LYCOS RETRIEVER 
Viral: Viral Hepatitis
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Hepatitis C is a viral infection that is carried in the blood and can cause severe damage to the liver. It can lead to cirrhosis of the liver after 10-20 years and liver cancer after 20-40 years.
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PKIDs is a national nonprofit organization that supports families touched by chronic, viral infectious diseases including viral hepatitis and HIV/AIDS, and educates the public about effective disease prevention. Created in 1996 by parents seeking ways to help their children face the physical, emotional and social challenges of these diseases, PKIDs ... provides information about the latest medical treatments, civil rights protections and pertinent information on family issues through its volunteers, publications, listservs, staff and website ( www.pkids.org).
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The two treatments were about equal in their ability to eliminate the viral infection. Statistically similar proportions of patients (about 52% and 42%, respectively) had no detectable levels of the hepatitis C virus.
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