Liver Disease - Hepatitis C 

Hepatitis C is an infection caused by a virus that attacks your liver and leads to inflammation. Hepatitis C is passed through contact with contaminated blood.

Many people do not know they have Hepatitis C until liver damage is detected.

Risk Factors

• Sharing needles during illegal drug use
• Receiving piercings/tattoos in unclean environments with unsterile equipment
• Received blood transfusion/organ transplant before 1992
• HIV
• Born to woman with Hepatitis C
• Sex with an infected person
• Multiple sex partners

Signs & Symptoms

• Usually no signs and symptoms during earliest stages
• When signs and symptoms occur they are usually mild, and flu-like.
  • Fatigue
  • Fever
  • Nausea, poor appetite
  • Muscle/joint pains

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