Hepatitis C and unsafe sex: there is some risk.By far the biggest risk of getting hepatitis C is from injecting drugs with shared needles. It has long been known that sexual transmission is much less common, but it can occur. Now some more data are available from the Swiss HIV HIV (Human Immunodeficiency Virus), either of two closely related retroviruses that invade T-helper lymphocytes and are responsible for AIDS. There are two types of HIV: HIV-1 and HIV-2. HIV-1 is responsible for the vast majority of AIDS in the United States. Cohort Study. This study recently reported that among participants with a history of injection drug use, there were 7.4 new cases of hepatitis C per 100 patient year--compared to 0.23 per 100 patient years for those without the drug use. Among those who did not inject drugs, those who reported unsafe sex had 0.7 per 100 patient years, while those who did not had 0.2 cases. In other words Adv. 1. in other words - otherwise stated; "in other words, we are broke" put differently , in this group being studied, injecting drugs was associated with 30 times the risk of getting hepatitis C. For those not injecting drugs, unsafe sex was associated with 3.5 times the risk. Rauch A, Rickenbach M, Weber R and others, and the Swiss HIV Cohort Group. Unsafe Sex and Increased Incidence of Hepatitis C Virus
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