The Cost of Hepatitis C

Hepatitis C is a costly disease, not only to the wallet, but to the body as well. With recent advances in medicine, the challenge in ridding the planet of this scourge is now a matter of economics rather than technology. Yes, hepatitis C is a costly but curable disease.

What we now know as hepatitis C (HCV) was first identified in 1989, when it was known as non-A, non-B hepatitis in order to differentiate it from the other known forms of the disease.

Stored blood samples from the 1940s have provided the earliest documented presence of the virus, but scientists agree …read more