Common misspellings of the word countries are: 1  counries. 2  countires. 3  countrie's. 4  country's. 5  ocuntries. 6  countries in french. 7  countries in spanish. 8  countries in german.
You can get a blood test to see if you have the hepatitis C virus. Yes. About 75% to 85% of people who have it develop a long-term infection called chronic hepatitis C. It can lead to conditions like liver cancer and cirrhosis, or scarring of the liver. This is one of the top reasons people get liver transplants.
The Road to a Cure. The goal of your treatment is to get rid of the hepatitis C in your body. You're considered cured if you don't have any virus in your blood 6 months after you stop taking medicine.A turning point in finding a cure came when doctors began treating the disease with interferon in the 1990s.ofosbuvir can be used without interferon for people with some types of hep C. Sofosbuvir comes in an easy once-a-day pill. It takes as few as 12 weeks to work, and it cures up to 90% of people who take it. Being able to give a treatment that is one pill a day with few side effects is very attractive, Lok says.